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Short descriptionThis function adds or substracts days to/from any given date.
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This function adds or substracts days to/from any given date.


addDays(timestamp, numberOfDays, timeZone) #Output: Number



Parser expressionDescription


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


This function adds 2 days to the issue's 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 Sunday.


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


This function substracts 2 days from the issue's due date.

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


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


This function substracts 6 days from 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

ParameterInput (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. 



This function returns a  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 a JWT calculated date-time fields.