# Date and Wait Node

**URL:** <https://community.n8n.io/t/date-and-wait-node/95745>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [April 2, 2025, 2:18am UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/date-and-wait-node/95745 "2025-04-02T02:18:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![LRZ416](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/n8n/user_avatar/community.n8n.io/lrz416/32/72380_2.png) [@LRZ416](https://community.n8n.io/u/LRZ416)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 2:18am UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/date-and-wait-node/95745/1 "2025-04-02T02:18:52Z")

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hi.  
Im sending a `date` from a form to a wait node.  
the `at specified time` is an expression → `{{ $json.date + "T16:00:00-04:00" }} ` to do another action at 4pm on the the form date.

simple I thought, but it doesn’t trigger at the date/time …not sure why.  
any thoughts would be welcome

### Setup

n8n setup  
version 1.83.2  
local app  
macOS

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**Author:** ![solomon](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/n8n/user_avatar/community.n8n.io/solomon/32/43567_2.png) [@solomon](https://community.n8n.io/u/solomon)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 3:13am UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/date-and-wait-node/95745/2 "2025-04-02T03:13:05Z")

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I’m the [documentation](https://docs.n8n.io/integrations/builtin/core-nodes/n8n-nodes-base.wait/#time-based-operations) of the Wait node I found this:

 ![Screenshot_20250402-001150](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/n8n/original/3X/4/8/483a4a8a7928134cc52ca0a9f863fcd2ad02e129.png)

Try setting up the time manually, using the time picker. See if that works as expected.

If it does, then change the field to an expression and check how it is formatted.

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**Author:** ![rbreen](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/n8n/user_avatar/community.n8n.io/rbreen/32/106993_2.png) [@rbreen](https://community.n8n.io/u/rbreen)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 3:20am UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/date-and-wait-node/95745/3 "2025-04-02T03:20:42Z")

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The wait step is working, just not outputing anything.

Here’s a way to do it. Instead of the wait until time, create a loop testing if the time has passed, wait 5 seconds, then test again. Here’s the workflow.

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**Author:** ![LRZ416](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/n8n/user_avatar/community.n8n.io/lrz416/32/72380_2.png) [@LRZ416](https://community.n8n.io/u/LRZ416)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 1:24pm UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/date-and-wait-node/95745/4 "2025-04-02T13:24:44Z")

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hey thanks for the replies!

went with the assumption the expression of the date/time was incorrect.

after some tries this ended up working:

#### old

`{{ $json.date + "T09:18:00-04:00" }}`

### new

`{{ $json.date + "T09:18:00" }}`

#### working flow

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**Author:** ![system](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/n8n/user_avatar/community.n8n.io/system/32/195824_2.png) [@system](https://community.n8n.io/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2025, 1:24pm UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/date-and-wait-node/95745/5 "2025-04-09T13:24:56Z")

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