Node-Red Inject Time not working for all future input_datetime helpers

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Hi there!
I recently moved my Morning-Alarm Routine to Node-Red since it got to complex for me in Yaml.
It works fine so far, but I realized, that it isn’t triggering all the time. Luckily I always let it set another backup alarm on my phone.

So far it seems that if the Input_datetime is far in the future, it will see it as “in the past”.
I can’t figure out how many hours it takes for it to see it in the past.

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I just tested this out. For example anything that happens in the next couple of hours it will show me “next alarm at” and if I go up an hour at the time, it will stay “in the future”. But if at 8 AM i set the next alarm for 7:30 for the next day in my input datetime (which is without a date), It will stay “in the past at: 07:30” forever and not trigger the next morning.

Where is the problem? I never had this kind of problem using the same helper in yaml.

Thanks a lot in advance!

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Do you have repeat daily checked?

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Oh wow, I didn’t know about this option! Thanks a lot, this fixed it!
What are the default settings, if this isn’t repeated daily? When will it trigger?

Thank you very much!

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When you use time by itself, you can only use it to set a time within the current day. Using a 24 hour clock, at 01:00 you can set the time anywhere between 01:01 and 23:59.

If it was 23:00 you would only be able to set between 23:01 to 23:59.

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