app_time

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What time the device thinks it is, in its own zone — what a clock-dependent screen shows, and what a test of scheduling or a timezone change checks against. A phone and an emulator read their own clock; an iOS simulator has none and reads the Mac's, and says so. To change the zone, app_timezone.

Read-only: readOnlyHint is true.

Arguments

Name	Type	Required	What it is
device	string		Device serial to target, e.g. "emulator-5554". Omit when only one device is running.
driver	string: uiautomator2, uiautomator, wda		Driver to use: "uiautomator2" (default for Android; fast, installs a server APK on first use), "uiautomator" (Android, installs nothing, slower, cannot type), or "wda" (WebDriverAgent: iOS simulators and iPhones).

Examples

Each is the arguments of a tools/call request; the first is shown whole.

Read the device's clock

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "app_time",
    "arguments": {}
  }
}

On an Android 15 emulator the answer's text was:

2026-09-29T01:27:21.511-07:00 America/Los_Angeles