feat(tool_datetime): a timezone-aware Date & Time tool (RR-456) - #2247
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A model has no clock, and telling it today's date does not fix its arithmetic. The new Date & Time tool node gives an agent timezone-aware now/render/shift/boundary/difference/at/next_weekday operations over unix timestamps, with DST gap/fold reporting (`adjusted`), month-end clamping, and a UTC fallback that names a missing IANA database rather than silently answering in UTC. Declares `tzdata` in the node's own requirements. Split out of #2213 (RR-456). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GeK8j3apAhKber2Ac6xAsg
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participant Agent
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Agent->>IInstance: Invoke a datetime tool
IInstance->>IGlobal: Read default_zone
IInstance->>datetime_math: Execute datetime operation
datetime_math-->>IInstance: Return rendered result
IInstance-->>Agent: Return tool response
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In `@nodes/src/nodes/tool_datetime/datetime_math.py`:
- Line 461: Update the datetime parsing logic around the at contract so
requested preserves seconds when the input matches HH:MM:SS, while retaining the
existing minute-only format for HH:MM inputs. Update the validation error to
list both accepted formats, YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM and YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.
- Line 166: Update the epoch value returned by render to preserve the original
fractional Unix timestamp used to calculate the formatted fields; remove the int
truncation while retaining the existing behavior for whole-number timestamps.
- Around line 180-183: Update the month normalization logic in _clamped to
handle arbitrarily large positive or negative month values with arithmetic
division/remainder rather than iterating once per year. Preserve the existing
normalized year/month result and accommodate offsets produced when shift
multiplies year amounts by 12.
- Line 213: Update both _anchored and at in
nodes/src/nodes/tool_datetime/datetime_math.py at lines 213-213 and 471-472 to
compare (answer['date'], answer['time']) with the requested date and minute,
before calculating ambiguous; retain minute precision because at omits seconds
from rendered fields. Add a regression case covering 2011-12-30 in Pacific/Apia.
In `@nodes/src/nodes/tool_datetime/IInstance.py`:
- Line 273: Validate args.get('allow_today') in IInstanceBase._dispatch_tool
before calling dtm.next_weekday, accepting only actual boolean values and
rejecting non-boolean inputs such as strings instead of coercing them with
bool().
In `@nodes/src/nodes/tool_datetime/README.md`:
- Around line 139-140: Generate the missing parameter documentation for the
tool_datetime node by running the nodes:docs-generate workflow, ensuring the
tool_datetime.defaultTimezone schema appears in the generated block. Commit the
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Thanks @joshuadarron — this is a well-built node. Splitting the arithmetic in datetime_math.py from the @tool_function schemas is the right seam, reporting DST rather than guessing it (requested / adjusted / ambiguous) is the hard part done properly, and the _tzdb_missing split between "the database is absent" and "the caller mistyped a zone" is a distinction most implementations never make. The dependency pass is clean too: tzdata is a bare requirement, the only == is in the generated constraints.lock, and services.json matches the house documentation URL that 17 other tool nodes use.
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CodeRabbit's Major on gap detection is valid, and I confirmed it by running it:
requested wall: 2011-12-30 00:00 (Pacific/Apia)
resolved local: 2011-12-31 00:00
time equal (what the code compares): True
date equal: False
So _anchored and at compare only HH:MM and report adjusted: False for a transition that skipped an entire calendar day. Apia in 2011 is the textbook case and it is exactly the class of bug this node exists to remove. Comparing (date, time) fixes it, and the regression test they ask for is worth having.
Also valid, and cheaper: render returns int(epoch) while computing every other field from the float, so a fractional timestamp comes back describing two different instants. _clamped's while loops are the third — see my inline note, which has a fix that covers that one as a side effect.
Two notes from me are inline. One is the available_timezones caching this PR's description said would follow on this branch; it has not.
One thing I checked and am not raising: the tool_* checklist items about pagination, secret-in-error-message and a mock-plus-real-SDK test do not apply here — the node calls no API and holds no credential. README rather than doc.md is correct for this node type, and datetime.svg is present for test_icons.py.
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should fix — the caching promised in the PR description is not in this head.
From the description:
With the database present, every mistyped-zone lookup re-runs
available_timezones()(about 1.4 ms). The fix is to cache the probe once per process, and it will follow on this PR.
At head 02acfea it has not. The short-circuit here only helps once the database has been found missing:
- Database absent → first failure sets
_tzdb_reported = True, and every later call short-circuits before_tzdb_missing(). Fixed. - Database present, zone mistyped →
_tzdb_reportedstaysFalsefor ever, because it is only set on the missing branch. So_tzdb_missing()runs on every bad-zone lookup, and each one callsavailable_timezones(), which walks the whole tzdb.
The second case is the common one. An agent that guesses America/San_Francisco or PST pays the full listing on each call, and every answer is silently UTC, so it will not stop guessing.
The answer cannot change inside a process, so the cache is one decorator:
from functools import lru_cache
@lru_cache(maxsize=1)
def _tzdb_missing() -> bool:The _tzdb_reported flag still earns its place — it keeps the warning to one line — but it stops being the only thing standing between a typo and a full directory listing.
Worth a test alongside it: patch available_timezones with a counter, resolve two different bad zone names, and assert it was called once.
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You are right, and thank you for going back and checking it — I said it would follow on this branch and it did not.
Fixed in a1a18c5: _tzdb_missing is @lru_cache(maxsize=1), with the reasoning you set out written into its docstring — _tzdb_reported latches only on the missing branch, so the database-present case re-listed some 600 zones on every mistyped lookup, and every answer being silently UTC gave the agent no reason to stop guessing. _tzdb_reported keeps its job of holding the warning to one line.
The test you asked for is there too: test_the_database_is_probed_once_however_many_zones_are_mistyped patches available_timezones with a counter, resolves Mars/Olympus and then America/San_Francisco, and asserts one call.
One consequence worth flagging: a cached probe is process-wide, so a test that patches available_timezones could inherit a previous test's answer. An autouse fixture clears the cache around every test in the file, which is what keeps test_a_missing_timezone_database_is_named_rather_than_silently_utc honest — it failed first time for exactly that reason.
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Suggestion, not a blocker - this module reads like it belongs in ai.common.utils, not inside one node.
Nothing here needs changing for this PR to land. Raising it because the module is new, and the cost of moving it only goes up once other nodes start importing from tool_datetime.
Its whole import list is calendar, datetime, typing. I grepped the file for every node and vendor concept and got five hits, all in docstrings explaining why the CRM formats were chosen - no code path branches on a vendor. Every signature takes primitives and returns primitives:
resolve_zone(name) boundary(epoch, unit, edge, zone)
render(epoch, zone) difference(start, end, unit, zone)
shift(epoch, amount, unit, zone) at(date, time, zone)
next_weekday(epoch, weekday, zone) now(zone)
None of those could tell you which node they live in. The tool-shaped part - the @tool_function schemas, the _dated() descriptions, _ZONE_ARG - is already cleanly on the other side of the split in IInstance.py.
The contrast that makes this concrete is tool_oura. Its resolve_date_range looks like a generic helper too, but it is correctly node-local, because a vendor rule is baked into its behaviour:
The default end is UTC today plus one day because Oura
dayfields use the ring wearer's local timezone
There is no equivalent line anywhere in datetime_math.
Two things that might read as objections but do not hold:
- "Nothing else needs it yet." That has not been the bar for
ai.common.utils. Six of its current exports have exactly one consumer -decode_data_url,guess_filename,colorize_depth,require_dict,pick_torch_dtype,resolve_pipeline_device. - "It would lose the no-stubs testing property." It would not.
test_tool_datetime.pyloads the module withspec_from_file_locationagainst an explicit path, so a move is a one-line change to_MODULE. The property comes from the import list, not the directory.
If you agree, packages/ai/src/ai/common/utils/datetime_utils.py re-exported from __init__ is the shape, with _clamped staying private. It would also put the tzdata dependency from the other comment in one place rather than per node. A TypedDict for render()'s return would be worth adding at that point, since the key set becomes a shared contract.
Entirely your call, and a follow-up PR is a reasonable place for it.
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Keeping it node-local, for the same reason as last time on #2213 rather than a new one — and noting you have framed it as a follow-up either way.
.claude/rules/architecture.md says extract at a second consumer, not in anticipation of one, and tool_datetime is still the only caller. Your two counters hold (the ai.common.utils bar really has been one consumer, and the no-stubs property really does come from the import list rather than the directory), so if a second node wants this, packages/ai/src/ai/common/utils/datetime_utils.py with _clamped private and a TypedDict for render() is the shape, and _MODULE in the test is the one line that changes.
Two things from this round argue for waiting rather than against the move:
render()'s key set moved again in this PR —epochis now floored andadjustedcompares date and time. Freezing that into a shared contract while it is still settling is early.- The
tzdatarequirement stays declared where it is used. Inai.commonit would land on every consumer of that package.
Happy to file it as a follow-up issue if you want it tracked rather than remembered.
…lidators Addresses review on #2247. datetime_math: - `adjusted` compares the rendered DATE and time, not the time alone. Samoa skipped 2011-12-30 entirely, so midnight on it resolves to midnight on the 31st with the clock reading intact — reported as unadjusted, which is the answer this node exists to stop giving. Fixed in `_anchored` and in `at`, with a Pacific/Apia regression on both paths. - `render` floors the epoch once and renders from that, so the returned `epoch` and the fields beside it name the same instant; 1.9 no longer comes back as "epoch 1" next to a time built from 1.9. - `_clamped` normalises months with `divmod` instead of a step per year. - `at` keeps seconds in `requested` when the caller sent them, and the shape error names both accepted time formats. - `_tzdb_missing` is `lru_cache`d. `_tzdb_reported` latches only when the database is missing, so with one present every mistyped zone re-listed the whole database — the common case, and an agent guessing zone names had no reason to stop. IInstance: - Argument validation goes through `ai.common.utils`: `require_dict`, `require_str`, `require_bool` and `require_int`, in place of private copies. `amount` is bounded to ±120_000 units, which is what stops a hallucinated `10**9 years` reaching the calendar arithmetic at all, and `allow_today` is strictly boolean — `input_schema` validates nothing on the way in, so `"false"` had been reaching `bool()` and answering "next Tuesday" as today. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01GeK8j3apAhKber2Ac6xAsg
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This is a good addition I think, but, I would also suggest changing instant -> epoch where applicable. LLMs will understand that better.
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Also, I don't think the instructions and tool descriptions are very clear.
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Thanks @joshuadarron — a1a18c56 answered every item from the last round properly. The (date, time) comparison in both _anchored and at fixes the Apia case CodeRabbit found, and the two tests that pin it name the real transition rather than a synthetic one. divmod in _clamped is better than the loop it replaces, math.floor in render makes the epoch and the fields beside it agree, lru_cache on _tzdb_missing is exactly the cache I asked for — and the _fresh_tzdb_probe fixture is the detail that keeps it from quietly making the suite order-dependent. The shared validators are in, used the way require_bool's own docstring prescribes.
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One blocker and one defect, and they are the same piece of code.
IInstance.py has no test at all. test_tool_datetime.py covers datetime_math and only datetime_math — which was right when IInstance.py was schemas and pass-through, and is not right now that this round put a numeric policy and a default in it. The bound it added is wrong in both directions, and a test over datetime.shift's arguments would have shown that immediately. Details inline; the harness already exists in this repo and needs no new wiring.
A third note is inline about hallucinated parameter names. CodeRabbit's two open comments are both 🟡 Minor and neither blocks: defaulting only None in datetime.now is correct as written, and the generated README params block is worth one nodes:docs-generate run.
Still not raising, as last time: the tool_* checklist items about pagination, secrets in error messages and a real-SDK test do not apply — the node calls no API and holds no credential.
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should fix — one bound for seven units is too tight for three of them and too loose for two.
The comment says "~120k units is a century of months either way, past any real CRM date". unit is not months, though — it is any of second, minute, hour, day, week, month, year, and the same number means seven different spans:
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1.4 days | ordinary requests rejected |
minute |
83 days | ordinary requests rejected |
hour |
13.7 years | fine |
day |
328 years | fine |
week |
2,300 years | raises, and not a ValueError |
month |
10,000 years | raises |
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120,000 years | raises |
Both ends are wrong, and I ran all three:
year +120000 -> RAISES ValueError year 122026 is out of range
week -120000 -> RAISES OverflowError date value out of range
day +120000 -> 2355-03-31 12:00:00
- Too tight.
{"amount": 172800, "unit": "second"}is two days. It is refused with"amount" must be between -120000 and 120000, and nothing the model can see explains why —_EPOCH_ARGand theamountschema say nothing about a range, so its only options are to guess a smaller number or give up.secondis advertised in the enum, so a caller working in epoch seconds is using the tool as documented. - Too loose.
{"amount": 120000, "unit": "year"}passes the bound and thenlocal.replace(year=122026, …)raisesValueError: year 122026 is out of range— so the bound does not makeshifttotal, which is what it was added for. Worse,{"amount": -120000, "unit": "week"}raisesOverflowError, notValueError, so a caller followingshift's ownRaises:docstring does not catch it.
The DoS the comment worries about is already gone — divmod in _clamped made the arithmetic constant-time this round, so there is nothing left to loop. What is left to do is make every out-of-range answer a clean ValueError the agent can act on. Bounding per unit does both jobs at once:
#: The largest |amount| per unit that can still land inside datetime's
#: year 1..9999. Per unit, because 120000 seconds is a day and a half
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'second': 300_000_000_000, 'minute': 5_000_000_000, 'hour': 80_000_000,
'day': 3_000_000, 'week': 400_000, 'month': 95_000, 'year': 8_000,
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amount = require_int(args, 'amount', lo=-limit, hi=limit, tool_name='datetime.shift')Read unit before amount so the range in the error is the one that actually applies. Whatever numbers you pick, the amount schema description should name the limit too — an error the model only meets after a failed call costs a turn that the description would have saved.
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MUST fix — the tool layer has no test, and this round moved real decisions into it.
This docstring is right about datetime_math, and the split it describes is the good part of this node's design. The gap is the other side of it: IInstance.py has no test of any kind, and after a1a18c56 it is no longer a pass-through.
What is untested and new:
require_int(args, 'amount', lo=-120_000, hi=120_000)(line 235) — a numeric policy. See my note on that line: it rejects{"amount": 172800, "unit": "second"}, which is two days, and accepts{"amount": 120000, "unit": "year"}, which raises. One parametrised test over(amount, unit)would have shown both.args.setdefault('allow_today', False)beforerequire_bool(line 272) — the difference between "next Tuesday" answering today and answering next week._zone(line 127-129) and_epoch(line 132) — the fallback toIGlobal.default_zonedecides which zone every answer is in.
The harness exists and you have used it in this same batch. nodes/test/tool_pipedrive/test_pipedrive.py and nodes/test/tool_gohighlevel/test_gohighlevel.py both import a node's IInstance under stub modules:
_STUB_MODULE_NAMES = ('rocketlib', 'ai', 'ai.common', 'ai.common.config', 'ai.common.utils')— with the real ai.common.utils validators loaded from source, which is exactly what this node needs, since require_int's bound behaviour is the thing under test. A stub IGlobal with a fixed default_zone is the only other piece.
It does not need to be a large suite. The arguments of shift and next_weekday, plus _zone falling back, would cover what this round added:
./builder nodes:test --pytest="-v nodes/test/test_tool_datetime.py"If you would rather keep this file stub-free — which is a fair thing to want, given its docstring — a second file beside it (nodes/test/tool_datetime/test_tools.py, matching how the other tool nodes lay it out) keeps both properties.
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should fix — a mistyped optional parameter is silently dropped, and the answer is confidently wrong.
The required arguments are safe: a model that sends amt instead of amount gets "amount" is required from require_int and can correct itself. The optional ones have no such floor, and this line is where that costs the most.
args.get('timezone') missing means "use the deployment default". A mistyped key is indistinguishable from an absent one, so:
- The model sends
{"epoch": 1767225600, "tz": "America/Los_Angeles"}. _zonefinds notimezone, and returnsself.IGlobal.default_zone— sayUTC.- The answer comes back rendered in UTC, with
timezone: "UTC"in it. - Nothing failed, so the model has no reason to look at that field. It reads the date and books on it.
That is a wrong-by-eight-hours answer delivered as a correct one, which is the failure this whole node exists to remove. next_weekday has the same shape: allow_today mistyped means setdefault inserts False, and "is there a meeting today" is answered about next week.
ai.common.utils already has the guard, and 20 other tool nodes use it — tool_slack, tool_notion, tool_oura, tool_pipedrive, all five tool_microsoft_365 services, and more:
from ai.common.utils import validate_tool_input_schema
_ZONE_SCHEMA = {'type': 'object', 'required': [...], 'properties': {...}}
def render(self, args):
args = require_dict(args, tool_name='datetime.render')
validate_tool_input_schema(_RENDER_SCHEMA, args, tool_name='datetime.render')
...Its docstring makes the same argument this comment does: a hallucinated key "is silently dropped by the dispatcher and the call returns a default-valued result the agent then misreads". The schemas are already written out per tool; lifting each input_schema dict to a module constant is what it costs to pass it to both @tool_function and the validator.
The project's tool_* checklist asks for this directly: "Argument validation — uses the shared helpers in ai.common.utils, not private copies."
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A new Date & Time tool node (
tool_datetime) that gives an agent a clock and a calendar it can trust.now,render,at,shift,next_weekday,boundary,difference. The pure arithmetic lives indatetime_math.py, separate from the@tool_functionschemas inIInstance.py.at()returnsrequested/adjusted/ambiguous, andboundary()/shift()setadjustedwhen a wall time does not exist, e.g. midnight in America/Santiago on a spring-forward date. Month arithmetic clamps to the last day, so 31 Jan + 1 month is 28 Feb.tzdatais declared in the node's ownrequirements.txt. If the IANA database is missing anyway, the node logs that once instead of silently answering every zone in UTC. A mistyped zone still falls back to UTC and is not blamed on the database.datetime.svg), whichtest_icons.pyrequires.Type
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nodes/test/test_tool_datetime.py(DST gaps and folds, boundaries, month clamping, missing tzdb vs mistyped zone)test_tool_datetime.py+test_icons.py, 45 passed./builder testpasses (left to CI)Checklist
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Part of RR-456. Split out of #2213; no GitHub issue.
Carried over from the #2213 review (non-blocking): @asclearuc's nit on
datetime_math.py. With the database present, every mistyped-zone lookup re-runsavailable_timezones()(about 1.4 ms). The fix is to cache the probe once per process, and it will follow on this PR.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
https://claude.ai/code/session_01GeK8j3apAhKber2Ac6xAsg
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