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Short description	This function adds or substracts natural days (or working days) to/from any given date. Weekends will not be counted as working days.
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This function adds or substracts natural days (or working days) to/from any given date. Weekends will not be counted as working days.

addDaysSkippingWeekends(timestamp, numberOfDays, timeZone)

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Description

addDaysSkippingWeekends({issue.duedate}, 2, LOCAL)

This function adds 2 days to the of the issue due date .

If the due date is set to a Monday the function will return a date-time for Wednesday.

If the due date is set to a Friday the function will return a date-time for Tuesday.

addDaysSkippingWeekends({issue.duedate}, -2, LOCAL)

This function substracts 2 days to the of the issue due date.

If the due date is set to a Monday the function will return a date-time for Thursday.

If the due date is set to a Friday the function will return a date-time for Wednesday.

addDaysSkippingWeekends({issue.cf10100}, -6, USER_LOCAL)

This function substracts 6 days from the of a custom date-time field (with the ID 10100).

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

Parameters used in this function

Parameter Input (data type) Description

timestamp

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

numberOfDays

The number defined here will be the offset in days.

Negative values are used to substract days.

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

timeZone

The time zone used for the calculation.

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.

Output

This function returns a timestamp represented as a .

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

equivalent of any given day plus an offset of n days where in a certain timezone weekends don't count.

addDaysSkippingWeekends(timestamp, sadasdsad, xxx)

Parameter explanation....

Output

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If t represents a timestamp which coincides with a Friday, adding n = 1 will return a date-time for the following Monday.

Negative values for n are used in order to subtract days to t.

Note: n cannot be higher than 50000.