Set a date field to the current date

Use case

Set any type of date field of an issue to the current date and time.

Choose Current issue

Select either a Date Time Picker field or a Date Picker field.

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

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

Alternatively, the expression editor can be set to Jira expression mode and the following expression can be used:

new Date()

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

Use case	Workflow function	Parser functions
Add a sub-task's summary and key to the description of its parent	Update fields
Add three days skipping weekends automatically to a Date Picker	Update fields	dateTimeToString() dayOfTheWeek() addDays()
Add watchers from another field	Update fields Transition issue	union() toStringList()
Assign an issue to the project lead, if the issue is unassigned on creation	Update fields
Assign an issue to the user who last commented on it	Update fields
Assign important issues to the project lead	Update fields
Automatically add incident reporters to problem tickets	Update fields	append() fieldValue() linkedIssues() toStringList()
Copy field values from epic to issues under it after creation	Update fields Transition issue	epic() issuesUnderEpic() filterByStatus()
Copy labels of a sub-task to the parent issue upon closing	Update fields
Keep parent's priority in sync	Update fields
Obtain the difference between two dates	Update fields
Set a date field to a future date	Update fields	dateTimeToString()
Set a date field to the current date	Update fields	dateTimeToString()
Set Fix version to Affects version when resolving an issue	Update fields
Set the Assignee based on the Issue type	Update fields	getMatchingValue()
Set the due date based on the priority	Update fields	getMatchingValue()
Set the priority to Highest if the 'Infrastructure' component is selected	Update fields

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