# DELAY node - variable delay not seeming to work

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**Created:** [21 August 2019 12:35 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/delay-node-variable-delay-not-seeming-to-work/14603 "2019-08-21T12:35:50Z")\
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**Post date:** [21 August 2019 12:52 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/delay-node-variable-delay-not-seeming-to-work/14603/4 "2019-08-21T12:52:58Z")

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Use a flow context variable to store the your desired message delay value.

Then use a Change node immediately before the Delay node to set `msg.delay` to the value of that flow context variable.

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