Not really. You want something to happen after a time. Persistence doesn’t make anything happen, it just offers a look-up into the past.
You could keep looking to see if something happened an hour ago, but that’s a lot of pointless look-see.
Generally in openHABs event driven rule system, use a Timer for jobs like this.
Recent post using javascript rule
general guidance
You will have to write script in a rule to use timers, it goes beyond the point-n-click capability.
