JavaScript: Find out which day was in yesterday
JavaScript Datetime: Exercise-10 with Solution
Write a JavaScript function to calculate 'yesterday's day.
Test Data:
console.log(yesterday('Nov 15, 2014'));
console.log(yesterday('Nov 16, 2015'));
console.log(yesterday('Nov 17, 2016'));
Output :
"Fri Nov 14 2014 00:00:00 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)"
"Sun Nov 15 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)"
"Wed Nov 16 2016 00:00:00 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)"
Sample Solution:-
HTML Code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Find out which day was in yesterday</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
JavaScript Code:
var yesterday = function(date1){
var dt = new Date(date1);
return new Date((dt.setDate(dt.getDate()-1))).toString();
}
console.log(yesterday('Nov 15, 2014'));
console.log(yesterday('Nov 16, 2015'));
console.log(yesterday('Nov 17, 2016'));
Sample Output:
Fri Nov 14 2014 00:00:00 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time) Sun Nov 15 2015 00:00:00 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time) Wed Nov 16 2016 00:00:00 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)
Flowchart:
Live Demo:
See the Pen JavaScript - Find out which day was in yesterday-date-ex- 10 by w3resource (@w3resource) on CodePen.
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