VerveSheets
Formulas for

Current Time

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

Pull the live local time by city. 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, "field", "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.0.city")
  • Found Cities › City ascii
    =VERVE("worldtime", "San Francisco", "field", "foundCities.0.city_ascii")
  • Found Cities › Country
    =VERVE("worldtime", "San Francisco", "field", "foundCities.0.country")
  • Found Cities › Iso2
    =VERVE("worldtime", "San Francisco", "field", "foundCities.0.iso2")
  • Found Cities › Iso3
    =VERVE("worldtime", "San Francisco", "field", "foundCities.0.iso3")
  • Found Cities › Province
    =VERVE("worldtime", "San Francisco", "field", "foundCities.0.province")
  • Found Cities › State ansiPremium
    =VERVE("worldtime", "San Francisco", "field", "foundCities.0.state_ansi")
  • Found Cities › Timezone
    =VERVE("worldtime", "San Francisco", "field", "foundCities.0.timezone")
  • Found Cities › Time
    =VERVE("worldtime", "San Francisco", "field", "foundCities.0.time")
  • Found Cities › Time24
    =VERVE("worldtime", "San Francisco", "field", "foundCities.0.time24")
  • Found Cities › Time12
    =VERVE("worldtime", "San Francisco", "field", "foundCities.0.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 Google Sheets?
Install the VerveSheets add-on, sign in once with your key, and type =VERVE("worldtime", "San Francisco", "field", "foundCities") into any cell. The "field" argument names the value you want back, so the cell resolves to a single number or string you can chart, sort, or feed into another formula.
What data can I pull from Current Time?
Current Time returns foundCities, foundCities.0.city, foundCities.0.city_ascii, foundCities.0.country and foundCities.0.iso2, plus 6 more — name any one of them as the "field" argument and that value lands in the cell. Leave the field out and the whole record spills into a two-column table instead.
Which Current Time fields need a paid plan?
foundCities.0.state_ansi is included from the Starter plan up. On the Free plan the cell returns #PREMIUM(field) rather than a wrong or empty value, so it's always obvious which one to upgrade for. Every other field works on Free.
Can I fill a whole column of Current Time at once?
Yes. Put your city values down a column and point the formula at the range — A2:A50 instead of A2 — and one call returns a value for every row. Dragging the formula down works too, but the range form is a single billed call per column rather than one per cell.
How many credits does each Current Time cell cost?
Each resolved cell costs 1 credit. A cell only re-bills when it actually refreshes, so a sheet you aren't touching doesn't keep charging.
Does Current Time work in Excel as well as Google Sheets?
Yes — same arguments, same key, same fields. Excel namespaces custom functions, so the call is =VERVE.CALL() there and =VERVE() in Google Sheets; nothing else about it changes.
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