30-seconds-of-code/snippets/yesterday.md

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yesterday	date,intermediate

Results in a string representation of yesterday's date.

• Use new Date() to get the current date, decrement by one using Date.prototype.getDate() and set the value to the result using Date.prototype.setDate().
• Use Date.prototype.toISOString() to return a string in yyyy-mm-dd format.

const yesterday = () => {
  let d = new Date();
  d.setDate(d.getDate() - 1);
  return d.toISOString().split('T')[0];
};

yesterday(); // 2018-10-17 (if current date is 2018-10-18)