Time filter

The time filter is part of Message filtering and works for the chat and for a single source. Posts that arrive outside the window are not delivered; they appear in the delivery log as filtered with the reason "outside the delivery window".

Setting it up

1. Open the chat (or a source) → Message Filtering → Time filter.
2. Switch on Deliver in window only. A first schedule appears at once: every day, 09:00–21:00.
3. Adjust the days of week; the shortcuts Every day, Weekdays, Weekend and None save taps. A new schedule already carries a 09:00–21:00 period; if you delete every period, picking a day fills in 00:00–23:59. Add schedule adds another schedule.
4. Add one or more delivery periods — start and end time — for those days; any period can be deleted, including the last one.
5. Need different hours on different days? Press Add schedule again and configure another group of days with its own periods.

None, or clearing every day of a schedule, turns that schedule's window off — it does not mean "every day".

The times are in the chat's time zone, shown at the top of the block and set in Settings → Timezone.

When to use it

• A personal feed that should stay quiet at night.
• A channel whose audience is in one time zone: no posts at 4 a.m.
• Weekend-only digests.

To queue posts instead of dropping them, use the publishing window of deferred posting — it also explains when this block is hidden.

A manual Send latest post ignores this window (and the deferred-posting window) — content filters still apply.