# Workflow delay time from property.

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/workflow-delay-time-from-property/101966>\
**Category:** HubSpot Ideas\
**Tags:** workflows\
**Created:** [March 7, 2024, 2:20pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/workflow-delay-time-from-property/101966 "2024-03-07T14:20:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![JFenchel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/439d5e/32.png) [@JFenchel](https://community.hubspot.com/u/JFenchel)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2024, 2:20pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/workflow-delay-time-from-property/101966/1 "2024-03-07T14:20:50Z")

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I would love to have the ability to set a delay in hubspot based on either a properies time of day or set the number of hours, minutes or seconds based on a numeric property. I have Ops Hub Pro so I can calculate when 2 hours before a meeting will be, but I don’t have any abilit to use that to set a delay in the workflow to act on that calculation. My current particular use case is to send texts and more customized emails 2 hours before a meeting, but I’m sure there are many other use cases for this.

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**Author:** ![Peta\_APB](https://d10pqhm3lwygmk.cloudfront.net/user_avatar/community.hubspot.com/peta_apb/32/16798_2.png) [@Peta\_APB](https://community.hubspot.com/u/Peta_APB)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2025, 1:09am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/workflow-delay-time-from-property/101966/2 "2025-02-12T01:09:17Z")

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I second this! It’s so desperately needed. We have quite a lot of workflows where we need to actually send all of the data outside of Hubspot specifically because of this Hubspot limitation where we can’t release the delay at a specific datetime.  
We are global, so we do not want to be forced to set a static date and time for records to exit the delay. Instead I would prefer to be able to calculate a datetime or exact timestamp when records need to exit the delay. We have so many processes that require this as we run events across several continents with a wide range of timezones. So currently my workaround is that I have to send batches or records to Zapier where I use ‘delay for’ action step where I can insert a variable which I calculate in a previous step to set a unix timestamp. It’s a very obvious concept for delays I would have thought but definitely lacking in Hubspot currently and we also have Ops Hub but we still can’t achieve this.  
A simple concept, so I hope this is something that can be built out and released soon. It’s a shame to invest so much with Hubspot and still not be able to insert a variable using a delay step. Hopefully soon.