archiving and displaying yesterdays date

wx_girl · Joined: 26 Feb 2008 Posts: 9

I have looked online and can't find anything on how to display yesterdays date on a webpage. I am making pages that display date but the data is a day old and want to display the date for which the data corresponds. I'm not sure how to do this for I have only found code to display the current date and don't know how it will need to be written to adjust for month to month changes. I will eventually need to have pages for archives which display two and even three days ago data and would like the date stamp to correspond.

Please let me know if you can help!

Straystudio · Joined: 14 Apr 2008 Posts: 264 Location: Nord Italy

Now it is late here in Italy, let me submit a sample I quickly made on now, handling just days of week; so, the Reader can easily understand my reasoning, if less things are mixed up.

Since new Date().getDay() returns a number (integer), I do Idea

"this number" minus ... -1 -2 -3 depending on how much You have to go back.

The resulting number, takes an item from an Array listed as that number.

if / else statement takes in account the integer when would go under zero; as a result, a well rotating list turns out.