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Hello all.
Is there a validation equation that allows a question to be displayed only between 5pm and 8am?
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Hi,
you obviously are looking for a condition not a validation, aren't you?

Well a quick idea:
strtotime(date("H:i")) > mktime(17,0,0) OR strtotime(date("H:i")) < mktime(8,0,0)