Getting the next specific date of a specific month from today (Formatter)

Hi @ChrisDiodato 

Good question.

Try using Date/Time Modifiers.

https://community.zapier.com/show-tell-5/save-a-step-by-adjusting-date-times-with-modifiers-8011

Hi @tessalone !  Sorry for the late reply on this and thanks for sending me this information.  This seems like a really good solution for trying to format dates to add specific amounts of time to the current date if it can be measured in days, months, years, etc.  but what I’m trying to do is just get Zapier to find the next January. 

In other words, If I have an input of 9/22/2023 or 3/2/2023, I want Zapier to give me the next January first (01/01/2024).  Think this is possible?  Thanks!

@Troy Tessalone 

@ChrisDiodato 

The Formatter step worked for me when I tested.

Thanks for the reply @Troy Tessalone and for bearing with me with all of this.  Right, so formatter with add/subtract gets you a specific date in relation to today’s date -- I’m looking for something different.

I’m trying to get January 15th of the following year regardless of what the input date is.  I’m trying to do this so I can use the date to set up tasks in my Wealthbox for new clients which occurs every January.

So ideally I have a client fill out a google form on 6/1/2024 (the input).  I’d like to create a function that gives me 1/15/2025 (January 15th of the following year).  Or another example, they fill out the form on 12/10/2023 -- I’d like the function to give me January 15th of the following year (1/15/2024).  Does this make sense?  Again, really appreciate your help!

This thread seemed like it was on the right track but it was specific to day of the week:

https://community.zapier.com/how-do-i-3/set-a-date-value-as-e-g-next-wedesday-15736

@ChrisDiodato 

Why not simplify it to this…

Change the To Format to be a custom value of YYYY, which will return just the year.

Then in the desired fields you can set a hybrid value like this: [YYYY]-01-15

Where [YYYY] is the variable for the year returned from the Formatter step.