Big Timer is (probably) the best-ever timing node for Node-Red, providing a general purpose timer as well as handling summer/winter correctly as well as (importantly) lighting up time (for which you should provide longitude and latitude). After all you probably don’t turn the outside lights on at 6pm!! You turn them on when it gets DARK.
As always - available at node-red-flows and at npmjs.com
Latest (Dec 16, 2018) additions/changes include timestamp on outputs, additional on/off inputs, improvements to "timer" input option example:
timer X mins
Short extract from the readme file:
The ultimate Timing node for Node-Red
Purpose
BigTimer is a powerful timing node offering a range of timing facilities for Node-Red. BigTimers can be used singly or in groups. Full support for dusk/sunset dawn/sunrise and variations also day/week/month (and special days) control. The node offers outputs suitable for MQTT, speech and databases. You can also manually over-ride the UTC time setting on the host computer if required.
Usage
Suitable for general use and very powerful (yet simple), BigTimer has 3 outputs, the first of which triggers when there is a change of state and presents one of two messages (for, for example, MQTT or other control mechanism), the second output is a simple 1 or 0 every minute in the payload and also has additional outputs reflecting the status message in msg.state and message time and others. The third output presents a message which could be used for speech or debugging.
