Set a Date Time Picker field to the current date

Use case

Set any Date Time Picker field of an issue to the current date and time.

Choose Current issue

Current Status field

Select current issue or parent of current issue, and upon selecting:

Selected issue - An issue must be selected from your current issue list.
Parser expression - A valid expression must be entered. In order to learn more about expressions, visit JWT expression editor.

Set the expression editor to General mode and use the following expression:

%{dateTimeToString({system.currentDateTime} , "YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.sZ" , RUN_AS_LOCAL, RUN_AS_LANG)}

If you prefer, you can also set the expression editor to Jira expression mode and add the following expression:

new Date()

Choose which user* will be able to execute the post function. By default, it is set to the Current user.

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