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Short descriptionTimestamp equivalent of any given day plus an offset of n days where weekends don't count.Output Statussubtletruetitletimestamp UI Text Box
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Returns a  Statussubtletruetitletimestamp  resultant of adding n months to timestamp t.
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Use this function instead of simply adding n * {MONTH}, since {MONTH}is a macro equivalent to 30 * {DAY}. Negative values for n are used in order to subtract instead of addingThis function adds or subtracts months to or from any given date.


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addMonths(timestamp, monthsnumberOfMonths, timeZone time_zone) #Output: Number


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addMonths(
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This example adds 3 months to the issue's due date.

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timestamp t has the value:

If the due date was set to March 25th,

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This function returns a timestamp as a 
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with the value: June 25th, 2011 23:15

the output would be June 25th, 202023:15 (in milliseconds).



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



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

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, 2020 23:15 the output would be January 25th, 2020 23:15 (in milliseconds).




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Parameters used in this function

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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).
numberOfDaysnumberOfMonths

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The number defined here will be the offset in daysmoths. Negative values are used to substract days subtract  moths.

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

timeZone

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The time zone used for the calculation. 



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This function returns a

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 representing a timestamp

Learn more about timezones
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Dates, times and time zonesDates, times and time zonesnopanel


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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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The function returns a
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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.



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Short descriptionAdds or subtracts months to from any given date.
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In this function we are not taking into consideration the fact that some months have more or less than 30 days.