Find out the previous year date from current date in javascript

Question

I need to find out the previous year date from current date and then set as minDate in jQuery UIdatepicker in javascript

My date formaqt is dd-mm-yy

Ie

• current date is 25-07-2012
• I need to get 25-07-2011

Answer 1

You need to use getFullYear()

and then generate new Date

var d = new Date(2012, 7, 25); d.setFullYear(d.getFullYear() - 1); 

Answer 2

Try this

var d = new Date(); var pastYear = d.getFullYear() - 1; d.setFullYear(pastYear); console.log(d);