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Working time calculations

Owned by David Fischer
Last updated: Oct 29, 2021
3 min read

The date filters in JMWE Nunjucks template allow you to perform working time calculations using various working time methods. You can run these date and time calculations based on working days and working times that are defined using the workingTime and holidays variables.

This document provides the usage details of these working time methods.

Before using any working time method, you must define the working times and holidays. If not, the following default values are used:

  • Working times - Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 6:00 pm

  • No holiday

Working times settings

Consider an example work schedule:

  • Monday, 9:00 am to 1:00 pm and 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm

  • Tuesday to Thursday, 9:00 am to 6:00 pm

  • Friday, 9:00 am to 1:00 pm

  • Saturday and Sunday, non-working days

Use the following syntax to define it:

{%set workingTime = { monday:['09:00:00','13:00:00','14:00:00','18:00:00'], tuesday:['09:00:00','18:00:00'], wednesday:['09:00:00','18:00:00'], thursday:['09:00:00','18:00:00'], friday:['09:00:00','13:00:00'] } %}

Holidays settings

Consider an example where every Jan 1st and Dec 25th are holidays including Feb 29th, 2024. Use the following syntax to define them:

{%set holidays = ['*-01-01','*-12-25','2024-02-29']%}

The date format used is yyyy-mm-dd (4 digits for the year, 2 digits for the month, from 1 to 12, 2 digits for the day of the month). You can use '*' instead of an actual year, month, or day to denote that the definition applies to every year, month or day, respectively.

Supported methods

This section lists all the supported working time methods in detail. Consider the following work times and holiday settings for the example syntax and output listed in the following table:

{%set workingTime = { monday:['09:00:00', '13:00:00','13:30:00','17:30:00'], tuesday:['09:00:00', '13:00:00','13:30:00','17:30:00'], wednesday:['09:00:00', '13:00:00','13:30:00','17:30:00'], thursday:['09:00:00', '13:00:00','13:30:00','17:30:00'], friday:['09:00:00', '13:00:00','13:30:00','17:30:00'] } %} {%set holidays = ["*-01-14","*-01-15","*-01-26","*-08-15"]%}

Method name

Description

Parameters

Example syntax

Output

Method name

Description

Parameters

Example syntax

Output

isWorkingDay

Determines if the day of the current instance is a working day.

N/A

{{ now | date("isWorkingDay") }}

true

isWorkingTime

Determines if the day and time fall inside working days and hours.

N/A

{{ issue.fields.created | date("tz") | date("isWorkingTime") }}

true

nextWorkingDay

Returns a new moment representing the next day considered to be a working day.

N/A

{{ issue.fields.created | date("nextWorkingDay") | date("YYYY-MM-DD") }}

2021-01-19

nextWorkingTime

Returns either the same moment if the day and time fall inside working days and hours, or a new moment representing the start of the next day considered to be a working day.

N/A

{{ issue.fields.created | date("tz") | date("nextWorkingTime") | date }}

2021-01-18T09:00:00+05:30

addWorkingTime

Adds an amount of working time to the input date and time.

  • amount: A number of days, hours, minutes,... to add.

  • unit: The unit of the duration amount. One of seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years

Add 30 min to issue creation time, in the logged-in user’s current time zone:

{{ issue.fields.created | date("tz") | date("addWorkingTime", 30, "minutes") | date }}

2021-01-18T09:30:00+05:30

subtractWorkingTime

Subtracts an amount of working time from the input date and time.

  • amount: A number of days, hours, minutes,... to add.

  • unit: The unit of the duration amount. One of seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years

Subtract 30 min from issue creation time, in the logged-in user’s current time zone:

{{ issue.fields.created | date("tz") | date("subtractWorkingTime", 30, "minutes") | date }}

2021-01-13T17:00:00+05:30

workingDiff

Calculates the difference between two moments, counting only working time.

  • otherDate: A string representing a date, or a Moment.js date object. If missing, the current date and time will be used (now).

  • timePeriod: A string representing the time period in which the difference should be calculated. Possible values are: years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds. If missing, milliseconds will be returned.

Difference between now and Issue creation date (both in the logged-in user’s current time zone)

{{ now | date("tz") | date("workingDiff", issue.fields.created | date("tz"), "minutes") }}

960

Ensure to use the current logged-in user’s timezone (date("tz")while calling the working time methods, wherever applicable. If not, you might not see the results as expected.

Additional examples

Example

Syntax

Returns

Example

Syntax

Returns

Subtract 4 working hours from the specified time with the following definitions:

  • Standard working time except for Mondays and Tuesdays between 9:00 am and 6:00 pm

  • Holidays as Dec 25th and Jan 1st

2021-09-13T16:00:00+00:00

Add 2 working days to now, in the logged-in user’s current time zone with the following definitions:

  • Standard working time except for Fridays between 9:00 am and 1:00 pm

  • Holidays as Oct 19th

returns 2 working days from now, in the current user's time zone.

 



Difference between the issue creation time and now with the following definitions:

  • Standard working time except for Mondays and Tuesdays between 9:00 am and 6:00 pm

  • Holidays as Dec 25th and Jan 1st

returns the number of working hours since the issue's creation, in the current user's time zone.

returns the number of working hours since the issue creation, in the current user's timezone

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