Candy Machine V2 Whitelist Settings - solana

Question

I am working to set up my first minting site with Candy Machine V2 and have a couple of functionality questions I have not been able to find answers to:
Is there a way to define a date/time when the whitelist mint can begin? Right now it allows me to mint if I have a whitelist token anytime before the go-live date..even if that go-live date is a week away. So Candy Machine says the white list is 7 days away but I can still mint if I have a whitelist token. I only want white list minters to be able to mint one hour before the go-live date. How can this be done?
Can I set multiple white list time frames? So white list mint group #1 starts 2 hours before the public mint and then white list group #2 starts 1 hour before the public mint?
Help is appreciated! Thanks

Answer 1

use this setting first:
"whitelistMintSettings": {
"mode": {
"burnEveryTime": true
},
"mint": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
"presale": false,
"discountPrice": null
}
this will only allow whitelist selling after the goLiveDate.
When you want to end the whitelist selling, make it public, update candy machine with:
"whitelistMintSettings": null
Don't delete it, just give a null value, otherwise the transaction will fail.

Answer 2

All the answers to ur questions are on the official metaplex docs, on configuration page.
You can set-up an starting hour for a Whitelist mint using the presale boolean inside the whitelist settings. If you set the presale to false then your CM will use the goLiveDate and will be live to be minted with ur whitelist settings token. You can check the last example that appear here.
To do this you should play with endSettings, using this you will be able to do a temporally close of ur candy machine mint that can be resumed changing and saving the config file and then running update_candy_machine command from the CMv2 CLI. So basically this can be done playing with endsettings and running update_candy_machine whenever you want to change something or resume the mint.