UTC Workbench

A Raycast extension I built for normalizing timestamps to UTC and reconstructing timelines during incident investigations.

Audience

You're troubleshooting an incident and timestamps are coming from everywhere: system logs in different formats, localized times from a UI, epoch values from an API, notes relayed by a user. You need to know what happened in what order, and people are waiting in the incident channel.

UTC Workbench is a timestamp normalizer and timeline builder that lives in Raycast. Paste a log line, get UTC. Paste five log lines from different systems, pin them, and you have a chronological timeline of labeled data with links back to their source.

How it works

Paste a log line into the search bar and UTC Workbench extracts and resolves timestamps from raw text. If a timestamp is ambiguous, it is flagged for manual timezone assignment. You can also add events manually. All timestamps are normalized and presented in UTC.

• Pin timestamps as you troubleshoot to build a timeline. Events are sorted by UTC and grouped by date.
• Set any event as a reference point to see offsets relative to a specific moment.
• Label events by source and attach URLs or other raw data.
• Export the assembled timeline as Markdown, JSON, or CSV.
• Sessions let you save and switch between investigations.