This function adds or substracts days to/from any given date.
addDays(timestamp, numberOfDays, timeZone) #Output: Number
addDays({issue.duedate}, 2, LOCAL)
This example adds 2 days to the issue's due date.
addDays({issue.duedate}, -2, LOCAL)
This example substracts 2 days from the issue's due date.
addDays({issue.cf10100}, -6, USER_LOCAL)
This example 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
timestamp
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.
{DAY}
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.