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This function returns the full timestamp (date and time) of any given date in text form.

dateTimeToString(timestamp, timeZone, language) #Output: Text

Parser Expression

Description

%{dateTimeToString({issue.created}, RUN_AS_LOCAL, RUN_AS_LANG)}

This example could return:

18/May/20, 7:52 am

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).
`timeZone`		The time zone used for the conversion.
`language`		The language used for the conversion.

This function returns a

Variant where you can additionally define a custom date time pattern (see documentation).

 dateTimeToString(timestamp, dateTimePattern, language) #Output: Text

Parser expression

Description

%{dateTimeToString({issue.created}, "YYYY.MM.DD [at] HH:mm:ss", "en_GB")}

This example could return:

2020.05.18 at 07:52:02

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).
`dateTimePattern`		A date time pattern in text form according to the moment patterns.
`language`		The language used for the conversion.

This function returns a

Variant where you can specify a custom format according to the date time pattern (see documentation) and additionally a time zone.

 dateTimeToString(timestamp, dateTimePattern, timeZone, language) #Output: Text

Parser expression

Description

%{dateTimeToString({issue.created}, "dddd, MMMM Do YYYY, h:mm:ss a", "MST", "en")}

This example will return:

The issue's creation date in a readable way using the Moutain Time Zone e.g. Friday, March 6th 2020, 2:29:21 am

%{dateTimeToString(0, "dddd, MMMM Do YYYY, h:mm:ss a", "Pacific/Auckland", RUN_AS_LANG)}

This example will return:

Thursday, January 1st 1970, 12:00:00 pm

Parameters used in this function

Parameter	Input (data type)	Description
`timestamp`		The parameter must be a valid timestamp. Usually this value is retrieved from a field (e.g. due date, created date).
`dateTimePattern`		A date time pattern in text form according to the moment patterns.
`timeZone`		The time zone used for the conversion.
`language`		The language used for the conversion.

This function returns a

This function is useful in the Update fields post function to represent as a text the result of a time expression.

Use cases and examples

Short description	Returns the timestamp of any given date in text form.
Output