REST API Time/Date formats

[Tom Allison]

I'm trying to set a time value via REST and I can't get the right format.

I've tried:

2012/03/30

2012-03-30

30-MAR-2012

and many others... but none of them seem to work correctly. I keep getting a bad HTTP response. when I look at the value in the issue it looks like I should be able to put:

{fields=>{customfield_12345 => "2012-03-31"}} every time.

[Tom Allison · Accepted solution]

Hi! It's a Date Picker field type. The format is 02/Jun/12, which I've tried.

I could switch to a DateTime field type, but don't those have 'pickers' too?

[Faisal]

Hi Tom!

Sorry for the late response here. I have tried to insert some date into Date Picker custom field, and I am also getting the same exceptions when running the following cURL REST request:

curl -u admin:admin -X PUT --data '{"fields" : {"customfield_10000":"2012-06-02"}}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://5.125.147.3:8085/jira/rest/api/2/issue/TP-3

However, I've tried to get the issue JSON data using the GET method, and I noticed that the date format for the custom field is rendered as 2012-06-02 instead.

Hence, the following REST request should work:

curl -u admin:admin -X PUT --data '{"fields" : {"customfield_10000":"2012-06-02"}}' -H "Content-Type: application/json" http://5.125.147.3:8085/jira/rest/api/2/issue/TP-3

Hope that the info helps!

[Tom Allison]

Not sure what changed, but it's working now...

[Faisal]

Hi Tom, May I know what is the custom field type that we are trying to inject the value to using REST? And furthermore, you may kindly try to check the date time format configuration in the look and feel, and perhaps use the same format as configured and see if it helps?