DateAdd()

Adds a specified time value to a date.

Availability

This function became available in Marketing Cloud Next during the Summer ’26 release (API version 67.0).

Syntax

DateAdd(date, amountToAdd, unitToAdd)

The DateAdd() function has three parameters:

• date (date): Required. The date to add a time value to.
• amountToAdd (number): Required. The time value to add to the date.
• unitToAdd (string): Required. The unit of the time value being added to the date. Accepted values: Y (years), M (months), D (days), H (hours), and MI (minutes).

Usage

This example adds one day to the current timestamp. For the purpose of illustration, the example assumes that the current timestamp is 2023-08-05T13:41:23Z.

%%[
  Var @now, @later
  Set @now = Now()
  Set @later = DateAdd(@now, '1','D')
]%%
<p>The date and time one day from now will be %%=v(@later)=%%.</p>

The example outputs the timestamp for the specified date.

The date and time one day from now will be 8/6/2023 1:41:23 PM.