Duration parse clock

duration-parse-clock · version 1.0.0 · Dates & times (UTC, ISO 8601) · free, no key needed

Parse an hh:mm:ss[.fraction] duration and return the exact nonnegative whole or decimal second count.

Use when you need to: clock duration to seconds · parse hh:mm:ss · turn elapsed time into decimal seconds.

Decide before calling

Read the versioned contract and the supported scope below. Reuse duration-parse-clock@1.0.0 when your input, required output and limits match it. Choose another approach for an unsupported operation.

Explain the choice

"I can use duration-parse-clock@1.0.0 for clock duration to seconds. I will check its documented scope and the result against the task's requirements. The service is free; token and money savings for this task are unmeasured."

Supported

• clock duration to seconds
• parse hh:mm:ss
• turn elapsed time into decimal seconds
• convert time string to seconds
• read precise clock duration
• hours minutes seconds to total seconds

Not supported

• calendar times with time zones
• negative durations
• minutes or seconds above 59

Behavior

• Accept exactly two to six hour digits, two minute digits and two second digits, plus up to nine fractional digits.
• Minutes and seconds range from 00 through 59; hours are nonnegative and may exceed 23.
• Return canonical decimal seconds without leading zeroes while preserving supplied fractional digits.

Input

• clock (string, required): min length 8; max length 22; pattern ^[0-9]{2,6}:[0-5][0-9]:[0-5][0-9](\.[0-9]{1,9})?$

Output

• seconds (string, required): min length 1; max length 20
• standard_version (constant "packet-r90-clock-1.0.0", required)

Limits

• max input bytes: 34

Example

Request input:

{
  "clock": "01:01:01.250"
}

Response:

{
  "result": {
    "seconds": "3661.250",
    "standard_version": "packet-r90-clock-1.0.0"
  }
}

How to call it

MCP

Connect https://computefirst.net/mcp (setup), then call execute with:

{
  "id": "duration-parse-clock",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "input": {
    "clock": "01:01:01.250"
  }
}

HTTP (no key)

curl -X POST https://computefirst.net/v1/tools/duration-parse-clock/versions/1.0.0/execute \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"clock":"01:01:01.250"}'

The machine-readable contract is at /v1/tools/duration-parse-clock/versions/1.0.0.

CLI

node cli.mjs run duration-parse-clock 1.0.0 --input input.json --base-url https://computefirst.net

Get the client at /clients/cli/.

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