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Short description

This function adds or subtracts months to/from any given date.

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This function adds or subtracts months to/from any given date.

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Use this function instead of simply adding n * {MONTH}, since {MONTH}is a macro equivalent to 30 * {DAY}, not taking into account that there are months with 31/28/29 days. Negative values for n are used in order to subtract instead of adding.

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addMonths(timestamp, numbersOfMonths, timeZone) #Output: Number

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addMonths({issue.duedate}, 3, LOCAL)

This function adds 3 months to the issue's due date.

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{issue.duedate} has the value:

If the due date was set to March 25th, 2011 23:15

This function adds 3 months to the issue's due date. The return value

the output would be June 25th, 2011 23:15

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(in milliseconds).

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addMonths({issue.cf11025}, -2, USER_LOCAL)

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{issue.cf11025} has the value: March 25th, 2011 23:15

This function subtracts 2 months from the custom date-time field (with the ID 11025).

The return value would be January 25th, 2011 23:15 as number.

Instead of the Jira server's local time this example uses the current user's time zone.

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If the custom field value was set to March 25th, 2011 23:15 the output would be January 25th, 2011 23:15 (in milliseconds).

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Parameter Input (data type) Description

timestamp

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The parameter must be valid timestamp. Usually this value is retrieved from a field (e.g. due date, created date).

numberOfMonths

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The number defined here will be the offset in moths.

Negative values are used to substract days.

Internally JWT multiplies this value with the time macro {MONTH} to add full days to the timestamp. Learn more about time macros.

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The time zone used for the calculation.

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The function returns a

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representing a timestamp.

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