# Cron Plus Node Date Sequence

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cron-plus-node-date-sequence/35484>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [7 November 2020 05:57 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cron-plus-node-date-sequence/35484 "2020-11-07T05:57:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![jaswalters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@jaswalters](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jaswalters)\
**Post date:** [7 November 2020 05:57 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cron-plus-node-date-sequence/35484/1 "2020-11-07T05:57:36Z")

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I'm attempting to use the Cron Plus node.

> **[node-red-contrib-cron-plus](https://flows.nodered.org/node/node-red-contrib-cron-plus)**
>
> A flexible scheduler (cron, solar events, simple dates) node for Node-RED with full dynamic control and Timezone support

It states you can use date time sequences but I cannot get them to work.  
Date or Date Sequence Format...  
When you wish to use a fixed date or sequence of dates, the expression can be a string date, comma separated list of dates, an array of dates (The array can contain a mix of string, date objects and timestamps). When specifying a string date, you can use timezone e.g. "2020-01-01 00:00 GMT+2". You can even mix time zones e.g. "2020-01-01 00:00 GMT+2, 2020-01-01 00:00 GMT-7"

I send a payload of say 2020-11-22 01:30 but nothing happens. Am I missing something?

The doucmentation states to send a pyload like this. I've done this using a inject and also tried using a change node but no success.

```auto
{
   "command": "add",
   "name": "alarm1",
   "topic": "date",
   "expression": "2020-7-30 01"30",
   "expressionType": "dates",
   "payloadType": null,
   "payload": null,
   "limit": null
}

```

```auto
[{"id":"c56437dc.020958","type":"inject","z":"5f1c914a.b2f9a","name":"","props":[{"p":"payload"}],"repeat":"","crontab":"","once":false,"onceDelay":"","topic":"","payload":"{\"command\":\"add\",\"name\":\"alarm1\",\"topic\":\"date\",\"expression\":\"2020-7-30 01:30\",\"expressionType\":\"dates\",\"payloadType\":null,\"payload\":null,\"limit\":null}","payloadType":"json","x":170,"y":100,"wires":[["d86eb5c4.452458"]]}]

```

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**Author:** ![jaswalters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b19c9b/32.png) [@jaswalters](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/jaswalters)\
**Post date:** [7 November 2020 06:58 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cron-plus-node-date-sequence/35484/2 "2020-11-07T06:58:37Z")

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I figured this out. It places them under dynamic schedules which I did not know.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [21 November 2020 06:58 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/cron-plus-node-date-sequence/35484/3 "2020-11-21T06:58:42Z")

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