What period formats are accepted in JQL search?

[Maja Zuchowska]

Hi, I've been playing with JQL search, and while period for days or weeks works fine, I am getting error while going into month (M) or a year (y). Some examples are below:

• created > -2d (created in last 2 days)
• created > -4w (created in last 4 weeks)

Hovewer this one gets a invalid format error:

• created > -2M

* I do know the workaround: putting created AFTER and a date 2 months ago.

Doesn't Jira JQL provides support for periods greater than a week?

[Trudy Claspill · Accepted solution]

Hello @Maja Zuchowska 

As per the documentation for the Created field search, it doesn't support specifying a time period of a month or a year.

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/jql-fields/#Created

You could instead use -60d for 2 months, or -8w.

Another alternative, if you want your criteria to be based on the starting date of a month or year, is to use startOfMonth() or startOfYear()

https://support.atlassian.com/jira-software-cloud/docs/jql-functions/#startOfMonth--

[Tuncay Senturk · Accepted solution]

Hi @Maja Zuchowska 

As far as I know, the JQL date handling is designed primarily for days and weeks.

As you mentioned, there is a workaround using the created field with AFTER operator or simply you can try startOfMonth or startOfYear operators.

created < startOfMonth(-2)

created < startOfYear(-2)

Other than that, I don't think Jira JQL supports periods greater than a week.