Date & Time integration & automation experts

What you can automate with Date & Time

The Date & Time node in n8n converts, formats, and manipulates date and time values within your workflows. It handles the tedious but critical work of translating timestamps between different formats, time zones, and representations so that downstream systems receive dates in the exact format they expect. Date formatting issues are one of the most common causes of automation failures. One system stores dates as “2026-02-15”, another uses “15/02/2026”, and a third expects a Unix timestamp. An API returns times in UTC, but your reporting tool needs AEST. The Date & Time node handles all of these conversions without requiring custom JavaScript code. The node supports several operations: converting between date formats (ISO 8601, Unix timestamps, custom patterns), adding or subtracting time intervals (add 30 days for a due date, subtract 7 days for a lookback period), extracting components (get the month, day of week, or quarter from a date), and converting between time zones. You can chain multiple operations to handle complex date logic. At Osher, we use this node in every data processing workflow that involves dates, which is most of them. It is particularly important in our system integration projects where data flows between Australian and international systems with different date format conventions. Getting date handling right from the start prevents data corruption and reporting errors downstream.