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

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daysAgo	date,intermediate

Returns the date of n days ago from today as a string representation.

• Use new Date() to get the current date, Math.abs() and Date.getDate() to update the date accordingly and set to the result using Date.setDate().
• Use Date.prototype.toISOString() to return a string in yyyy-mm-dd format.

const daysAgo = (n) => {
  let t = new Date();
  t.setDate(t.getDate() - Math.abs(n));
  return t.toISOString().split('T')[0];
};

daysAgo(20); // 2020-09-16 (if current date is 2020-10-06)