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Hi at all,
does anybody how to trigger a specific task in a flow with a certain delay of some minutes? thanks :)

Hey <@U01LKGJ5EUV>, I don’t think we have such a mechanism. Would `time.sleep(time_in_seconds)` at the start of your task not work?

let's see...is there any documentation on that?

It’s just the native Python call so something like this:
```import time

@task
def abc(x):
    time.sleep(60)
    return x```

ahh great, didn't know that! thanks! :slightly_smiling_face: