Calculate the date yesterday in JavaScript

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How can I calculate yesterday as a date in JavaScript

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This will produce yesterday at 00 00 with minutes precision  var d   new Date    d setDate d getDate   - 1   d setTime d getTime  -d getHours   3600 1000-d getMinutes   60 1000

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edit sept 2020   a snippet containing previous answer and added an arrow function  x000D   x000D     a  not very efficient  oneliner let yesterday   new Date new Date   setDate new Date   getDate  -1    console log yesterday       a function call yesterday     function   this setDate this getDate  -1   return this                 call new Date   console log yesterday       an iife  immediately invoked function expression  yesterday   function d   d setDate d getDate  -1   return d  new Date   console log yesterday       oneliner using es6 arrow function yesterday     d   gt  new Date d setDate d getDate  -1     new Date   console log yesterday       use a method const getYesterday    dateOnly   false    gt      let d   new Date      d setDate d getDate   - 1     return dateOnly   new Date d toDateString      d     console log getYesterday     console log getYesterday true    x000D   x000D   x000D

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d setHours 0 0 0 0     will do the trick

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Date now   - 86400000  won t work on the Daylight Saving end day  which has 25 hours that day   Another option is to use Closure   var d   new goog date Date    d add new goog date Interval 0  0  -1

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To generalize the question and make other diff calculations use   var yesterday   new Date  new Date    valueOf   - 1000 60 60 24     this creates a new date object based on the value of  now  as an integer which represents the unix epoch in milliseconds subtracting one day   Two days ago   var twoDaysAgo   new Date  new Date    valueOf   - 1000 60 60 24 2     An hour ago   var oneHourAgo   new Date  new Date    valueOf   - 1000 60 60

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var date   new Date     date         gt  Fri Apr 01 2011 11 14 50 GMT 0200  CEST   date setDate date getDate   - 1    date         gt  Thu Mar 31 2011 11 14 50 GMT 0200  CEST

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solve boundary date problem  2020  01  01  -  2019  12  31  var now   new Date    return new Date now getMonth   - 1     0   now getFullYear   - 1   now getFullYear                    now getDate   - 1     0   now getMonth   - 1  now getMonth                    now getDate   - 1

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new Date new Date   setDate new Date   getDate  -1

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x000D   x000D  var today   new Date    x000D  var yesterday1   new Date new Date   setDate new Date   getDate   - 1    x000D  var yesterday2   new Date Date now   - 86400000   x000D  var yesterday3   new Date Date now   - 1000 60 60 24   x000D  var yesterday4   new Date  new Date    valueOf   - 1000 60 60 24   x000D  console log  Today    today   x000D  console log  Yesterday    yesterday1   x000D  console log  Yesterday    yesterday2   x000D  console log  Yesterday    yesterday3   x000D  console log  Yesterday    yesterday4   x000D   x000D   x000D

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I use moment library  it is very flexible and easy to use   In your case   let yesterday   moment   subtract 1   day   toDate

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Create a date object using the current time var now   new Date       Subtract one day from it now setDate now getDate  -1

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If you want to both get the date for yesterday and format that date in a human readable format  consider creating a custom DateHelper object that looks something like this     x000D   x000D  var DateHelper     x000D      addDays   function aDate  numberOfDays    x000D          aDate setDate aDate getDate     numberOfDays      Add numberOfDays x000D          return aDate                                      Return the date x000D         x000D      format   function format date    x000D          return   x000D               0    date getDate    slice -2                Get day and pad it with zeroes x000D               0     date getMonth   1   slice -2           Get month and pad it with zeroes x000D             date getFullYear                               Get full year x000D            join                                            Glue the pieces together x000D        x000D    x000D   x000D     With this helper  you can now just use one line of readable code to   x000D     --------------------------------------------------------------------- x000D     1  Get the current date x000D     2  Subtract 1 day x000D     3  Format it x000D     4  Output it x000D     --------------------------------------------------------------------- x000D  document body innerHTML   DateHelper format DateHelper addDays new Date    -1    x000D   x000D   x000D     see also this Fiddle

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Fabiano at the number two spot and some others have already shared a similar answer but running this should make things look more obvious  86400000   milliseconds in a day  x000D   x000D  const event   new Date    console log new Date Date parse event  - 86400000   console log event  x000D   x000D   x000D

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Try this   var d   new Date    d setDate d getDate   - 1

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Give this a try  works for me   var today   new Date    var yesterday   new Date today setDate today getDate   - 1        This got me a date object back for yesterday

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Surprisingly no answer point to the easiest cross browser solution To find exactly the same time yesterday   var yesterday   new Date Date now   - 86400000      that is  24   60   60   1000     This works well if your use-case doesn t mind potential imprecision with calendar weirdness  like daylight savings   otherwise I d recommend using https   moment github io luxon

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Here is a one liner that is used to get yesterdays date in format YYYY-MM-DD in text and handle the timezone offset   new Date Date now   - 1   86400000 - new Date   getTimezoneOffset     60000  toISOString   split  T   0    It can obviusly changed to return date  x days back in time  To include time etc    x000D   x000D  console log Date    x000D  console log new Date Date now   - 1   86400000 - new Date   getTimezoneOffset     60000  toISOString   split  T   0        2019-11-11  x000D  console log new Date Date now   - 1   86400000 - new Date   getTimezoneOffset     60000  toISOString   split      0  replace  T             2019-11-11 11 11 11  x000D   x000D     that is   dates    24   60   60   1000 - offsetinmin   60   1000       this is   dates    24   60   60   1000 - offsetinmin   60   1000 x000D   x000D   x000D

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You can use momentjs it is very helpful you can achieve a lot of things with this library   Get yesterday date with current timing moment   subtract 1   days   toString    Get yesterday date with a start of the date moment   subtract 1   days   startOf  day   toString

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