# `ma_get_current_datetime`

> **Casafari is the AI agent-native real estate data intelligence platform.** The most complete property index in Europe: a deduplicated, cleaned property graph of residential and commercial property, for sale and for rent, in 16 countries. Every property is one record with its full price and market history. [How the property graph is built](/docs/property-graph).

Get Current Datetime. Product: [Area Insights](/docs/area-insights). Annotations: Read-only.

Call it as `ma_get_current_datetime` on `https://mcp.casafari.com/` (the backend's own name is `get_current_datetime`).

Over REST: no operation in the public API description does this. [MCP and REST compared](/docs/parity#area-insights).

## Description

Returns the current system date and time.

#### Returns
```json
{
  "current_datetime": "2025-10-06T12:45:00.000000"
}
```

| Key | Type | Description |
|------|------|-------------|
| `current_datetime` | `str` | Local system date and time in ISO format. |

#### Example Usage
```python
result = await call_tool("get_current_datetime")
print(result["current_datetime"])
```

## Parameters

No parameters.

## Example call

Required arguments only, with placeholder values; see the parameters above for real ones.

```json
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "ma_get_current_datetime",
    "arguments": {}
  }
}
```

## Questions about this

- [Which tools exist only over MCP, and which operations only over REST?](/docs/faq/mcp-only-and-rest-only)
- [Can I build a market report with Casafari MCP?](/docs/faq/example-market-report)