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This function adds or subtracts time to or from any given date.

Weekends will not be counted as working days.



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addTimeSkippingWeekends(timestamp, timeToBeAdded, timeZone) #Output: Number
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addTimeSkippingWeekends({issue.duedatedueDate}, 1 * {MONTH} + 2 * {HOUR}, LOCAL)

This example adds 1 month and 2 hours to the issue's due date.

Weekends won't be taken into account.

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addTimeSkippingWeekends({issue.created}, 3 * {DAY} + 1 * {HOUR}, LOCAL)

This example adds 3 days and 1 hour to the issue's creation date.

Weekends won't be taken into account.

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addTimeSkippingWeekends({issue.duedatedueDate}, - 1 * {YEAR}, LOCAL)

This example subtracts 1 year from the issue's due date.

Weekends won't be taken into account.

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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).
timeToBeAdded

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The offset, supporting the usage of time macros. Learn more about time macros. Negative values are used to subtract time.

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The time zone used for the calculation. 

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Work days might depend on the time zone - it might be Sunday on the west coast of the US while at the same time it's already Monday in Australia. 

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This function returns a

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The output can be written into any Jira field of type Date Picker or Date Time Picker.

Another very common use case is to use this function in a JWT calculated date-time field.

If you want to convert the number into a text, you might want to take a look at the dateTimeToString() function.


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Variant of the function where you can additionally define the start and the end of the weekend.

This function is useful when the non-working days differ from the standard (Saturday/Sunday).

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addTimeSkippingWeekends(timestamp, timeToBeAdded, timeZone, startOfWeekend, endOfWeekend) #Output: Number
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addTimeSkippingWeekends({system.currentDateTime}, 12 * {HOUR}, LOCAL, {FRIDAY}, {SATURDAY})

This example adds 12 hours to the current date and time.

Fridays and Saturdays are not counted and will be skipped.

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addTimeSkippingWeekends({system.currentDateTime}, -2 * {DAY}, LOCAL, {SUNDAY}, {TUESDAY})

This example subtracts 2 days from the current date and time.

Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays are not counted and will be skipped.

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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).
timeToBeAdded

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The offset, supporting the usage of time macros. Learn more about time macros.

Negative values are used to subtract time.

timeZone

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The time zone used for the calculation. 

startOfWeekend

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Valid values are {MONDAY}, {TUESDAY} ... {SUNDAY}.
endOfWeekend

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Valid values are {MONDAY}, {TUESDAY} ... {SUNDAY}.
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Work days might depend on the time zone - it might be Sunday on the west coast of the US while at the same time it's already Monday in Australia. 

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This function returns a

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The output can be written into any Jira field of type Date Picker or Date Time Picker.

Another very common use case is to use this function in a JWT calculated date-time field.

If you want to convert the number into a text, you might want to take a look at the dateTimeToString() function.

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Adds or subtracts time to or from any given date.

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