# How to send Push Notification To Specific User At a particular time

**URL:** <https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-send-push-notification-to-specific-user-at-a-particular-time/1728461>\
**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\
**Tags:** push-notifications\
**Created:** [February 11, 2022, 9:30am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-send-push-notification-to-specific-user-at-a-particular-time/1728461 "2022-02-11T09:30:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![overturner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/53a042/32.png) [@overturner](https://community.thunkable.com/u/overturner)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 9:30am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-send-push-notification-to-specific-user-at-a-particular-time/1728461/1 "2022-02-11T09:30:04Z")

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Hi everyone. I had a small doubt. I was trying to send a notification to a specific user at a particular time. I read a few other posts and understood how to send the notification to one user , but couldn’t understand how to incorporate time into it. When I read the [onesignal](https://documentation.onesignal.com/reference/create-notification#:~:text=Description-,send_after,-string) docs , it says that I should use the send\_after parameter. I tried to do that and succeeded with the date but couldn’t figure out how to add the time. For example -

> 2015-09-24 14:00:00 GMT-0700

is the time format i am using. Here I understood till the part 24 , but after that was having some difficulty.  
it is written 14:00:00 GMT-0700. As per the docs , they say that the default time zone taken is utc but here both these times are different though UTC and GMT are same. So if anyone could explain this to me and tell how I can add time of any country , it would be highly appreciated

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**Author:** ![muneer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/muneer/32/75210_2.png) [@muneer](https://community.thunkable.com/u/muneer)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 9:43am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-send-push-notification-to-specific-user-at-a-particular-time/1728461/2 "2022-02-11T09:43:10Z")

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You have to convert your time to GMT. In your case your time to use with `send_after` would be `21:00:00` or `07:00:00`, whichever gives you your time in GMT.

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**Author:** ![overturner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/53a042/32.png) [@overturner](https://community.thunkable.com/u/overturner)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 9:49am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-send-push-notification-to-specific-user-at-a-particular-time/1728461/3 "2022-02-11T09:49:59Z")

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So how exactly would i write it.  
21:00:00 Gmt-???

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**Author:** ![muneer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/muneer/32/75210_2.png) [@muneer](https://community.thunkable.com/u/muneer)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 9:52am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-send-push-notification-to-specific-user-at-a-particular-time/1728461/4 "2022-02-11T09:52:51Z")

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OneSignal uses Unix timestamp which is only in GMT. So whatever time you want to activate the notification, enter it in GMT without the letters GMT, just the time.

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**Author:** ![overturner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/53a042/32.png) [@overturner](https://community.thunkable.com/u/overturner)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 9:53am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-send-push-notification-to-specific-user-at-a-particular-time/1728461/5 "2022-02-11T09:53:45Z")

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so , maybe like 2015-09-24 14:00:00  
So that extra GMT-0700 is not required?

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**Author:** ![muneer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/muneer/32/75210_2.png) [@muneer](https://community.thunkable.com/u/muneer)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 9:54am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-send-push-notification-to-specific-user-at-a-particular-time/1728461/6 "2022-02-11T09:54:17Z")

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> [@overturner](#):
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> extra GMT-0700 is not required?

Yes. This is correct.

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**Author:** ![overturner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/53a042/32.png) [@overturner](https://community.thunkable.com/u/overturner)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2022, 9:54am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-send-push-notification-to-specific-user-at-a-particular-time/1728461/7 "2022-02-11T09:54:37Z")

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Thank you so much @muneer

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**Post date:** [May 12, 2022, 9:55am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-send-push-notification-to-specific-user-at-a-particular-time/1728461/8 "2022-05-12T09:55:20Z")

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