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Formulas for

Current Time

Data Lookup1 credit/cellSheets · Excel
=VERVE("worldtime", "San Francisco")
What this pulls

Pull the live local time by city. =VERVE("worldtime", A2) returns the current time, date and timezone for a column — Sheets or Excel, auto-refreshing.

It's one of 250+ live sources you reach with a single =VERVE() function — served from APIVerve's production data engine, billed at 1 credit per resolved cell, and refreshed on whatever cadence you set. No API keys to wrangle, no scripts, no exports.

See it in a cell

A real example — the input you type, and the values you can pull from it. Click any cell to see the formula behind it.

worldtime.xlsxsample data
B2fx=VERVE("worldtime", A2, "search")
A
B
1
City
Search
2
San Francisco
San Francisco
3
4
click any cell to see its formula1 credit / cell
Ways to use it

Turn IDs into detail

Fill =VERVE("worldtime", "San Francisco") down a column of identifiers and expand each into full, structured detail — no manual lookups.

Enrich a table in place

Add Current Time beside your existing rows to append the fields you were missing, right where the data lives.

Keep it current

Let auto-refresh re-resolve the column on a schedule so the enriched data never goes stale.

Use it in your sheet

The same function works in both apps — install once, sign in with your key, and type it into any cell.

Google SheetsAdd-on

Install from the Workspace Marketplace, then drop the formula into a cell. Autocomplete suggests the source and its fields.

=VERVE("worldtime", "San Francisco")
Microsoft ExcelAdd-in

Same source, same arguments, same key — in Excel on desktop, the web, or mobile. Excel namespaces it as VERVE.CALL. Drag to fill a whole column.

=VERVE.CALL("worldtime", "San Francisco")
Fields you can pull

Add a field name as the last argument to land just that value in the cell.

  • Found Cities
    =VERVE("worldtime", "San Francisco", "field", "foundCities")
  • Found Cities.city
    =VERVE("worldtime", "San Francisco", "field", "foundCities.city")
  • Found Cities.city ascii
    =VERVE("worldtime", "San Francisco", "field", "foundCities.city_ascii")
  • Found Cities.country
    =VERVE("worldtime", "San Francisco", "field", "foundCities.country")
  • Found Cities.iso2
    =VERVE("worldtime", "San Francisco", "field", "foundCities.iso2")
  • Found Cities.iso3
    =VERVE("worldtime", "San Francisco", "field", "foundCities.iso3")
  • Found Cities.province
    =VERVE("worldtime", "San Francisco", "field", "foundCities.province")
  • Found Cities.state ansiPremium
    =VERVE("worldtime", "San Francisco", "field", "foundCities.state_ansi")
  • Found Cities.timezone
    =VERVE("worldtime", "San Francisco", "field", "foundCities.timezone")
  • Found Cities.time
    =VERVE("worldtime", "San Francisco", "field", "foundCities.time")
  • Found Cities.time24
    =VERVE("worldtime", "San Francisco", "field", "foundCities.time24")
  • Found Cities.time12
    =VERVE("worldtime", "San Francisco", "field", "foundCities.time12")

Premium marks data included on paid plans. On the Free plan a marked field is withheld and a marked input is ignored — either way the cell reads #PREMIUM(name) instead of a value, so a gated answer can never be mistaken for a real one. Everything unmarked works on every plan. Compare plans

Current Time, answered

Everything you need to wire it into a sheet.

How do I pull Current Time into a spreadsheet?
Install the VerveSheets add-on, sign in with your key, and type =VERVE("worldtime", "San Francisco") into any cell. The same function works in Google Sheets and Excel — no scripts, no API wiring.
How many credits does each Current Time cell cost?
Each resolved cell costs 1 credit. Filling a column of ten rows costs ten times that; a cell only re-bills when it actually refreshes, so a static sheet doesn't keep charging.
Can I fill a whole column at once?
Yes. Reference a range instead of a single cell — e.g. point Current Time at A2:A50 — and it returns a value for every row in one call, or just drag =VERVE("worldtime", "San Francisco") down like any spreadsheet function.
Does Current Time work in Excel as well as Google Sheets?
Yes. It's the same =VERVE() function with the same arguments and the same key in both — build a sheet in one and it behaves identically in the other.
How current is the data?
Current Time is served live from APIVerve's production data engine, and cells recalculate on the refresh cadence you choose — every open, hourly, or every 30 minutes.
Where does the data come from, and what shows on my bill?
VerveSheets runs on APIVerve, our production data engine; Current Time is one of 300+ sources on the same key. Invoices and card statements show APIVERVE.
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