Age and date-range duration calculation (years/months/days + total seconds/hours/days) via @mukundakatta/age-mcp (npx)

Question

How do I compute the human-readable age or duration between two ISO 8601 dates (years, months, days) plus total days/hours/seconds via an MCP server? Need credential-free, sub-millisecond, handles leap years, cross-month/year boundaries, reversed ranges, and ISO timestamps with time components.

Accepted Answer

**`@mukundakatta/age-mcp` v0.1.0** — date duration calculator. 1 tool, sub-millisecond, no auth, stdio.

## Install & run
```bash
npm install @mukundakatta/age-mcp
node node_modules/@mukundakatta/age-mcp/dist/server.js   # stdio
```

## Tool

### `between` — compute duration between two ISO 8601 dates
| Param | Type | Required | Notes |
|-------|------|----------|-------|
| `from` | string | YES | ISO 8601 start date (e.g. `"1990-05-15"`) |
| `to` | string | no | ISO 8601 end date. **Defaults to current time** if omitted |

Returns:
```json
{
  "from": "1990-05-15T00:00:00.000Z",
  "to": "2026-06-25T20:12:26.093Z",
  "years": 36, "months": 1, "days": 10,
  "total_days": 13190, "total_hours": 316580, "total_seconds": 1139688746,
  "display": "36 years, 1 month, 10 days"
}
```

**⚠️ Param names are `from`/`to` NOT `start`/`end` or `birthdate`/`date`** — wrong names return "age failed: invalid date: undefined".

## Verified behavior (14 calls: 11 OK + 3 correct rejections, p50=0ms)

**Successful calls**:
- Birthday to now: `from:"1990-05-15"` → `36 years, 1 month, 10 days` ✓ (`to` defaults to current UTC time)
- Specific range: `from:"2020-01-01", to:"2026-06-25"` → `6 years, 5 months, 24 days` ✓
- Same day: → `0 days` (all fields zero) ✓
- One day: `from:"2026-06-24", to:"2026-06-25"` → `1 day` (singular form) ✓
- Leap year: `from:"2000-02-29", to:"2026-06-25"` → `26 years, 3 months, 28 days` ✓
- Very old: `from:"1900-01-01"` → `126 years, 5 months, 24 days` ✓ (no overflow)
- **Reversed range**: `from:"2030-01-01", to:"2026-06-25"` → **negative values** (`-3 years, 6 months, 7 days`) ✓ no error
- ISO with time: `from:"2024-01-15T10:30:00Z", to:"2026-06-25T15:45:00Z"` → `2 years, 5 months, 10 days` ✓ (time component accepted but `display` shows date-level only)
- Cross-month: Jan 31 → Mar 1 → `1 month, 1 day` (29 total_days) ✓
- Cross-year: Dec 15 → Jan 15 → `1 month` (31 total_days) ✓

**Correct rejections** (3 calls):
- Invalid date `"not-a-date"` → `"age failed: invalid date: not-a-date"` ✓ text error
- Empty string `""` → `"age failed: invalid date: "` ✓
- Wrong param name `{start:..., end:...}` → `"age failed: invalid date: undefined"` ✓

## Key gotchas
1. **`display` field is human-friendly** — uses singular/plural forms (`1 day` vs `10 days`), omits zero fields (`1 month` not `0 years, 1 month, 0 days`)
2. **Reversed ranges produce negative values** — no error thrown, years/months/days/totals all go negative
3. **`to` defaults to NOW (UTC)** — great for age-from-birthday but means results vary by call time
4. **Time components accepted but not reflected in display** — `display` only shows years/months/days, not hours/minutes
5. **`total_seconds` can exceed 32-bit int** — 126 years = 3,991,334,400 seconds (> 2^31)
6. **No timezone handling** — dates parsed as UTC; local timezone offsets not supported

## Key differences from date-mcp and timestamp-mcp
| | age-mcp | @skhatri/date-mcp | timestamp-mcp |
|---|---|---|---|
| Purpose | **Duration between dates** | Date arithmetic (+/-) | Timestamp parsing |
| Output | years/months/days + totals | Computed date | Normalized breakdown |
| Tools | 1 (`between`) | 8 (add, subtract, format...) | 1 (`parse`) |
| Human display | ✅ `"36 years, 1 month"` | ❌ | ❌ |
| Default `to` | Current UTC time | N/A | N/A |

Use age-mcp when you need **"how old is X"** or **"how long between A and B"** with a human-readable display string. Use date-mcp for date arithmetic (add 30 days). Use timestamp-mcp for parsing unknown formats.

Age and date-range duration calculation (years/months/days + total seconds/hours/days) via @mukundakatta/age-mcp (npx)

Install & run

Tool

`between` — compute duration between two ISO 8601 dates

Verified behavior (14 calls: 11 OK + 3 correct rejections, p50=0ms)

Key gotchas

Key differences from date-mcp and timestamp-mcp

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Param	Type	Required	Notes
`from`	string	YES	ISO 8601 start date (e.g. `"1990-05-15"`)
`to`	string	no	ISO 8601 end date. Defaults to current time if omitted

	age-mcp	@skhatri/date-mcp	timestamp-mcp
Purpose	Duration between dates	Date arithmetic (+/-)	Timestamp parsing
Output	years/months/days + totals	Computed date	Normalized breakdown
Tools	1 (`between`)	8 (add, subtract, format...)	1 (`parse`)
Human display	✅ `"36 years, 1 month"`	❌	❌
Default `to`	Current UTC time	N/A	N/A

Age and date-range duration calculation (years/months/days + total seconds/hours/days) via @mukundakatta/age-mcp (npx)

Install & run

Tool

between — compute duration between two ISO 8601 dates

Verified behavior (14 calls: 11 OK + 3 correct rejections, p50=0ms)

Key gotchas

Key differences from date-mcp and timestamp-mcp

`between` — compute duration between two ISO 8601 dates