How to Use the Business Timezone & Holiday Scheduler MCP in Claude Code

Q: Can I use Business Timezone & Holiday Scheduler in my CI/CD pipelines with Claude Code?

Yes, you can. Claude Code can call addbusinessdays within headless environments to automate release scheduling based on global business days.

Q: How does Business Timezone & Holiday Scheduler handle daylight saving time changes in Claude Code?

The server uses IANA timezone strings via converttimezone to calculate transitions. Your agent gets precise, DST-aware timestamps directly in the terminal output.

Run Claude Code terminal commands to calculate actual business days and convert timezones for DevOps cron jobs and headless scripts.

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Script Headless Holiday Calculations in Claude Code

When you are running headless scripts or setting up CI/CD pipelines, hardcoded date logic breaks. Your terminal agent uses `add_business_days` via the MCP Server to calculate deployment windows that skip weekends and public holidays dynamically. It queries the Nager.Date API to ensure your automated scripts don't trigger during national holidays in the target region. This keeps your deployment pipelines safe from running when the local team is out of the office. Claude Code calculates the safe date, pipes the output to your shell, and schedules the job accordingly.

Convert Server Timezones Directly in the Terminal

Sifting through server logs across multiple AWS regions is brutal. Claude Code uses `convert_timezone` to translate UTC timestamps into local developer timezones or target server zones like "Asia/Tokyo" on the fly. It allows you to debug distributed systems without leaving your command line. You can pipe raw log outputs directly to your agent. The terminal tool parses the timestamps, runs the conversions, and prints a clean timeline of events so you can find the root cause of an incident faster.

Automate Cron Job Adjustments via this MCP Server

Standard cron jobs run blindly on holidays, which can trigger useless alerts or run expensive reports when offices are empty. Your agent can write wrapper scripts that call `add_business_days` to verify if today is an active working day using this MCP Server tool. If it is a holiday, the script exits early. This saves CPU cycles and prevents false alarms. Claude Code writes the bash wrapper, tests it against regional calendars, and installs it to your crontab.

Setup guide

Set up Business Timezone & Holiday Scheduler MCP in Claude Code

Prerequisites

Claude Code CLI installed (npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code)
Active Vinkius subscription with a valid endpoint token

1

Run the add command

Open your terminal and run the command shown on the right. Replace [YOUR_TOKEN_HERE] with your endpoint token from cloud.vinkius.com. Use --scope user to make it available across all projects.
2

Verify the connection

Start a Claude Code session and type /mcp to list connected servers. You should see business-timezone-holiday-scheduler-mcp with a green status indicator.
3

Start using tools

Ask Claude Code something like "Check my latest Business Timezone & Holiday Scheduler transactions." It will automatically discover and invoke the available Business Timezone & Holiday Scheduler tools.

Terminal

claude mcp add --transport http business-timezone-holiday-scheduler-mcp https://edge.vinkius.com/[YOUR_TOKEN_HERE]/mcp

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Prerequisites

Claude Code CLI installed
Active Vinkius subscription with a valid endpoint token

1

Open the config file

Create or edit .mcp.json in your project root for project-level scope, or ~/.claude.json for user-level scope.
2

Add the Business Timezone & Holiday Scheduler MCP

Paste the JSON snippet shown on the right into the mcpServers object. Replace [YOUR_TOKEN_HERE] with your endpoint token from cloud.vinkius.com.
3

Restart Claude Code

Start a new Claude Code session. Type /mcp to confirm the server is connected. The tools will be automatically available in your conversation.

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "business-timezone-holiday-scheduler-mcp": {
      "type": "url",
      "url": "https://edge.vinkius.com/[YOUR_TOKEN_HERE]/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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Common questions about Business Timezone & Holiday Scheduler MCP in Claude Code

Yes, you can. Claude Code can call `add_business_days` within headless environments to automate release scheduling based on global business days.

The server uses IANA timezone strings via `convert_timezone` to calculate transitions. Your agent gets precise, DST-aware timestamps directly in the terminal output.

You can pass arguments directly through CLI prompts. Claude Code formats the IANA timezone strings and country codes before querying the server tools.

Use the command line utility to add the server via HTTP transport. Once added, the tools are instantly available for any terminal-based prompts.

All calculations happen locally inside a secure sandbox. The only external request is an anonymous query to fetch holiday lists for specific country codes, keeping your network configurations and command scripts completely private.

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