This function creates a timestamp in milliseconds based on input values.

Syntax
dateTime(year, month, day, hour, minute, timeZone) #Output: Number
Examples
Parser ExpressionDescription
dateTime(2020, 03, 01, 15, 30, LOCAL)
This example returns the timestamp of March 1st, 2020 15:30 in milliseconds.
Additional information

Parameters used in this function

ParameterInput (data type)Description
year

NUMBER

The year as number, e.g. 2020, 2015 or 2010.
month

NUMBER

The month as number, e.g. 1, 5 or 12 (starting with 1 = January, ..., 12 = December).
day

NUMBER

The day as number.

hour

NUMBER

The hour in 24h format, e.g. 1, 12 or 23.
minute

NUMBER

The minute as number.
timeZone

TIMEZONE

The time zone used for the calculation. 

Output

This function returns a NUMBER representing a timestamp

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

Another very common use case is to use this function in one of the JWT calculated date-time fields.

This function can come in handy when trying to create custom dates without calculating them based on existing dates.