Is there a smart value to convert the created date of a jira ticket to GMT +2

Julia February 10, 2022

I have an automation set up to comment on a ticket the date/time stamp of when it was created. Inside of that comment, in addition to the date/time stamp, I want it to be displayed as well in GMT +2.

It looks like GMT+2 isn't on the list of timezones here: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/time/ZoneId.html#of-java.lang.String- 

I am also struggling to understand the ZoneOffset normalize() instructions.

What smart value could I use to convert a date/time stamp to GMT+2. I also want it displayed as fullDateTime

I have tried 

{{issue.created.setTimeZone("GMT+2")}}
 

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Mark Segall
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February 10, 2022

Hi @Julia - This worked for me (I used EET because I'm lazy 😉)

{{issue.created.setTimeZone("EET").longDateTime}}
Julia February 10, 2022

Hey Mark - thank you. is EET the same as GMT+2 ?

Mark Segall
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February 10, 2022

Jira documentation pointed me to here and it shows EET as +2:

joda-time.sourceforge.net/timezones.html

Julia February 10, 2022

Thank you so much! 

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Julia February 10, 2022

Mark, hate to come back, but I tried that and it is displaying PST 

 

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Julia February 10, 2022

Based on the Atlassian document I linked in the initial post, it doesn't look like we can just use any timezone, they have specific ones available 

Julia February 10, 2022
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So the issue is that you need to use convertToTimeZone.  setTimeZone is just applying the desired time zone value, which is kind of a silly smart value to me as I would think you could just hard code it in if you wanted to set that. But I digress... Here's what did the trick for me:

{{issue.created.convertToTimeZone("GMT+2").longDateTime}}
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July 6, 2022

Here's what worked for me...
(I live and work in Melbourne)


{{created.convertToTimeZone("Australia/Sydney").jqlDateTime}}&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>

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