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pragmatic-use-temporal from pragmatic-design/pragmatic.design is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add pragmatic-design/pragmatic.design/pragmatic-use-temporal@git:20261004.6f45a36Pins git:20261004.6f45a36 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- pragmatic-design/pragmatic.design
- Path
marketplace/plugins/pragmatic-design/skills/pragmatic-use-temporal/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261004.6f45a36, committed Oct 4, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 2, 2026
- Size
- 7,733 bytes
- Repository stars
- 15
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Use when code reads the current time, stores or converts dates, counts working days, schedules with cron, or when PRAG0900-0904 or PRAG0690 fire (Pragmatic.Temporal, IClock, [FromClock], time zones, TestClock).
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Pragmatic Use Temporal
**Covers:** Handle time with Pragmatic.Temporal: IClock and [FromClock] instead of DateTime.Now, business and client time zones, LocalDate/ZonedDateTime/DateRange, business days and holidays, cron, DST, EF Core mapping, TestClock.
Two rules carry most of the module:
1. **Store instants in UTC and convert at the edge** (model binding and serialization), never in a
handler.
2. **Nothing reads the machine's clock.** "Now" comes from `IClock`, so a test can freeze it and a job
and a request agree on what today is.
## Wiring
On a Pragmatic host the generator registers the module when the package is referenced; the host says
what only it knows:
```csharp
app.UseTemporal(t => t
.UseBusinessTimeZone("Europe/Rome") // the application's own zone: opening hours, deadlines
.UseDefaultTimeZone("Europe/Rome") // a caller who says nothing is in this one
.UseHolidayProvider<CompanyHolidays>()); // default: no holidays, weekends only
```
`UseClock(clock)` replaces the clock (tests). In a plain host: `services.AddPragmaticTemporal(o => …)`.
Time-zone ids are IANA (`Europe/Rome`), resolved the same on Windows and Linux.
## Now
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add pragmatic-design/pragmatic.design/pragmatic-use-temporal@sha256:2dbf2aeb5858cbe2The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261004.6f45a36, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Oct 2, 2026 and Oct 4, 2026, about one every 2 days.
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| git:20261004.6f45a36 latest | 2026-10-04 | 6f45a36 | 7,733 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261002.ccb0d57 | 2026-10-02 | ccb0d57 | 7,781 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (7733 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
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Source
pragmatic-design/pragmatic.design · 15 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_izad2c5frz3myhvp GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=pragmatic-design/pragmatic.design/pragmatic-use-temporal GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2dbf2aeb5858cbe23b9160cd608c4188208a78712d6d21cea9fe4c73db4783c6
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