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Get millis since epoch for Jira Automation

David Jose Silva Ruiz

Hello community,

I'm trying to automatically create annotations in Grafana, and for this, I need to pass an argument in millis (check the documentation here )

I tried this Jira smart value

{{now.millis}}

But it's returning something that is not the number I'm looking for

now={{now}} > now=2021-03-11T21:00:26.5+0000
milis={{now.millis}} > milis=524000000

Those millis, converted to UTC time is (check here for more details)

Wed Jan 07 1970 01:33:20

So, is there a way to do this? What does the value returned mean?

Accepted answers

nmenere

Hi Kian,

Milliseconds since Epoch was converted over from the old way of formatting dates.

Good news is the old way is still there:

{{#now}}toMillis{{/}}

We are tracking adding it to the new way here: https://codebarrel.atlassian.net/browse/AUT-1915

Hope that helps,

Nick

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Kian Stack Mumo Systems

@David Jose Silva Ruiz,

I don't know why that isn't working. I found the same behavior when I tried to use that format.

The only way I could eventually get this to work was by making a rest call to a publicly available API to give me the current epoch time and then passing that to another spot in my rule.

Screen Shot 2021-03-11 at 10.39.23 PM.png

I used the endpoint https://showcase.api.linx.twenty57.net/UnixTime/tounix?date=now. That seemed to give me the epoch in seconds, so then to get it to milliseconds I just appended "00" to the end.

Screen Shot 2021-03-11 at 10.42.33 PM.png

nmenere

Hi Kian,

Milliseconds since Epoch was converted over from the old way of formatting dates.

Good news is the old way is still there:

{{#now}}toMillis{{/}}

We are tracking adding it to the new way here: https://codebarrel.atlassian.net/browse/AUT-1915

Hope that helps,

Nick

David Jose Silva Ruiz

Thanks @Kian Stack Mumo Systems ! I was working on a similar solution to yours, but querying https://currentmillis.com/time/minutes-since-unix-epoch.php (which returns minutes instead of millis), then I was converting them with this

{{#=}}{{webhookResponse.body}} * 60000{{/}}

I believe both work almost the same, thanks!

David Jose Silva Ruiz

@nmenere : This is the best answer, and the most simple... but why isn't it anywhere in the documentation?

Kian Stack Mumo Systems

I was having problems with the formatting when I performed a multiplication. It kept returning a value in scientific notation instead which wasn't helpful!

Kian Stack Mumo Systems

@nmenere,

Thanks for providing this answer! I was searching high and low for a way to do it outside of what I ended up doing. If Atlassian can get it added to the documentation that would be awesome!

nmenere

The reason for documentation is that this way of formatting dates is deprecated. The old way is documented at - https://confluence.atlassian.com/automation/archived-date-functions-993924673.html

Italo _Modus Create_

@Kian Stack Mumo Systems @David Jose Silva Ruiz ,

I had a similar issue on converting Epoch Time to JIRA using Automation and I described the workaround here:

https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Marketplace-Apps-Integrations/How-to-convert-unix-epoch-timestamp-to-DateTime/qaq-p/1491982#U1822804

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