fieldsJEMH JEMH velocity context, relating to emails (comment header specifically) has $sentDate (if present, reverts to now() if not) as well as $receivedDate. Presentation of these dates can be altered through helper classes in the velocity context.
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JEMH can build date objects too, to enable values to be generated for arbitrary dates, ege.g.:
Date Time
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#set($longVal = $currentMillis.longValue() + 86400000 ) $dateFormatter.format($jemhDateUtils.createDate($longVal)) |
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When using the above, it operates in the context of the 'current' user, typically the sender of a mail (for incoming custom field defaults). You can default the locale of the date by using withDefaultLocale()from https://docs.atlassian.com/DAC/javadoc/jira/reference/com/atlassian/jira/datetime/DateTimeFormatter.html:
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ZonedDateTime - we are using ZonedDateTime which allows us to retain the timezone time zone aspect along with the date + time. This is vital aspect in case you’d wish to convert this to another timezone time zone (which is what is being done in the above example)
Formatter - to format the date in a certain pattern (i.e. 12/02/2020 - 08:29), we have provided the
getFormatter(pattern)method which is responsible for returning a DateTimeFormatter. The same can be used to format the ZonedDateTime to any other preferred format
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This set of methods doesn’t depend on any Jira user in the authentication context, ege.g., you want to do date/time manipulation for a custom field default
See formatter params parameters here: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/time/format/DateTimeFormatter.html
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