JIRA JQL searching by date - is there a way of getting Today() (Date) instead of Now() (DateTime)

Question

I am trying to create some Issue Filters in JIRA based on CreateDate.

The only date/time function I can find is Now() and searches relative to

Answer 1

You would expect that this is easily possible but that seems not be the case. The only way I see at the moment is to create a user defined JQL function. I never tried this but here is a plug-in:

http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DEVNET/Plugin+Tutorial+-+Adding+a+JQL+Function+to+JIRA