Add Time to Date

Adds a specific time in minutes, hours, days, or months to the specified date and stores the output value as a variable.

Note: The time value of year is not supported.

You can use this action to add time to a given date.

Action settings

Do one of the following to open the Action configuration window:

  • Double-click the action.
  • Click on the action and then click Configure.

See Action configuration window for more information.

Field Description
Months

The number of months to add to the specified date.

Days

The number of days to add to the specified date.

Hours

The number of hours to add to the specified date.

Minutes

The number of minutes to add to the specified date.

Date

The value of the date specified for use by this action. This value can be the current date, a specific date, or a lookup value.

Output as date

The Date/Time variable to store the date.

Output as ISO 8601 date string

The text variable to store the date as a string in ISO 8601 format: YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.sTZD (1997-07-16T19:20:30.45+01:00). This format helps eliminate confusion between countries that use different date formats.

For more information about this format, see the W3C article: http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime

For more information about how to use Lookups in configuration fields, see Lookups in action configuration fields.