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Date and Interval routines

Date and Interval routines

Oct 22, 2021

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This section contains routines that enable users to deal with dates.

Routines summary

  • addMonths — Adds a number of months to a specified date, preserving the day of month where possible.
  • currentDate — Returns the current date.
  • day — Returns a number representing the day of month: 1-31.
  • dayOfWeek — Returns the day of week.
  • endOfMonth — Returns a date set on the last day of the month for the given date. Also sets hours / minutes / seconds / milliseconds to their respective maximum value.
  • formatDate — Formats the given date into a date/time string accordingly to the given format expression.
  • hour — Returns the hour of the provided date: 0-23.
  • millisToDate — Converts milliseconds to a date.
  • millisToInterval — Converts milliseconds to a time interval.
  • minute — Returns the minutes of the provided date: 0-59.
  • month — Returns a number representing the month of the provided date (1-12).
  • monthName — Returns the month name of the provided date.
  • parseDate — Returns the parsed date according to the format you provided. If parse fails, it will return a null date.
  • second — Returns the seconds of the provided date: 0-59.
  • startOfDay — Returns a date, but strips off the hours, minutes and seconds.
  • startOfMonth — Returns a date set on the first day of the month for the given date. Also sets hours/minutes/seconds to 0.
  • toDate — Creates a date value from the specified parameters.
  • toJiraDateFormat — Displays the given date using Jira format.
  • toRawWorkingInterval — Returns a date interval converted to the specified number of hours per day.
  • toTimeZone — Converts a date to the specified time zone.
  • week — Returns the week number in the year of the provided date.
  • year — Returns the year of the provided date.

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