Close verification while you sleep

#What scheduled hours do

Scheduled hours are the periods when verification is closed. You draw them on a weekly calendar, and outside them verification works exactly as it always does. An empty calendar means verification is open at all times, which is how every server starts.

Closed is not the same as locked down. Members can still join your server, they just cannot get through verification until the next open hour. They keep whatever an unverified member has, and nobody is kicked, banned or blocked for arriving at the wrong time.

The usual reason to set this up is the night. New accounts arrive while nobody on your team is awake, and closing the door means they wait outside it until the morning instead of walking into a server with no moderator in it.

The schedule lives in your dashboard, under Verification. The switch stays off until you have drawn at least one period and picked a timezone, so a schedule that says nothing cannot be turned on by mistake.

This is one of the settings that only exists in the dashboard. /settings → Verification in Discord reports the schedule without letting you change it: whether it is on, whether verification is open or closed at that moment, and when it next changes. The hours themselves are drawn here.

#Set the timezone, then draw the hours

Start with the timezone. Hours mean nothing without one, so the switch stays off until you choose it. It sits at the top of the schedule screen even though it is also a General setting: it is the same setting in both places, so setting it here sets it there.

Five closed periods, one for each weeknight, each running from 22:00 to 08:00 the next morning. The weekend is empty, so verification is open all the way through it. The line across the week is the current time, and the highlighted column is today.

Drag on a day to close a stretch of hours. Drag a block to move it, onto another day if you want. Pull an edge to change when the period starts or ends. The blocks are striped on purpose: they are the hours when verification is off.

• To run past midnight, set an end that is earlier than the start, or pull the bottom edge of a block onto the next day. A period like that is drawn in two pieces, one on each day, and the second one carries an arrow to show where it came from.
• To repeat the same hours, select a period and turn on the other days under Also on. Copy … to takes a whole day and repeats it, which is quicker when a day holds more than one period.
• To be exact, type the times into From and To, or move one edge at a time with the ±15m buttons. On a keyboard, Del removes the selected period and Esc deselects it.
• You can draw up to 28 periods for one server. That is four a day, which is more than any weekly pattern needs.

The line at the top of the screen says whether verification is open or closed at this very moment, and how long is left before that changes. Read it once before you leave. It is the quickest way to notice that you have drawn the opposite of what you meant.

#The switch stays on while you are closed

The switch never moves on its own. It only controls whether the schedule is enabled, not whether verification is currently open. This means it stays On even during scheduled closed hours. To see the current status, check the line next to it, which changes to closed right now when verification is unavailable.

The switch also acts as a manual override. Turning it Off immediately disables the schedule and reopens verification, even during a scheduled closed period. Turning it On enables the schedule again, and verification closes immediately if the current time falls within a scheduled closed period.

The switch remains in the state you leave it. If you disable the schedule, it stays disabled until you enable it again manually. Since this control is only available in the dashboard, moderators cannot change it from Discord.

#What a member sees during closed hours

A member who presses Verify gets a private reply titled Verification Closed, and it reads Verification is temporarily closed. Please try again later. It does not say when you reopen. If you want your members to know, write your hours in the channel where the verification message sits.

Your log channel records the attempt as a Blocked attempt, with the reason Verification closed (scheduled hours). The same member with the same reason is logged at most once a minute, so somebody pressing the button over and over does not bury the rest of your log.

Four things carry on as usual while the door is shut:

• Members who are already verified. They are never asked anything again, so a closed period cannot reach them.
• Members who come back. If a returning member gets their role restored automatically, that happens as they walk in, before verification is involved at all.
• Your whitelist and your invite links. Both verify people at the moment they join, and neither one asks the calendar.
• Your staff. /verify still verifies a member by hand at any hour, and so does the Verify Manually button on a blocked attempt in your log channel.

The Join Gate also keeps working. Accounts are still checked as they arrive, and the ones that fail your checks are still stopped, whether verification is open or not.

#Two things to check before you rely on it

Raid mode has a closure of its own. If you turn on Close verification there, verification also shuts on its own when a wave of accounts arrives, whatever the calendar says. The two settings do not know about each other and neither cancels the other. A member stopped by a raid gets a different message, so your log tells you which of the two it was.

If Premium ends, your hours stay saved but stop being applied, and verification is open all week again. They start working the moment Premium comes back, so there is nothing to draw a second time.