Want to get todays date - 1 day value

[nbahari]

hi...

i know how to to current date value but i don know how to get a value of today's date minus 1 day.

i wan to get yesterday's date.

appreciate all yr help

[diablo416]

use set /a

set /a d=%d%-1

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

What's %d%? 

For me, echo %date% in Command Prompt is 01-Jul-08
So... set /a d=%date:~0,2% would give me 01

And then set /a yesterday=%d%-1 would give you yesterday's date.

However, it will say 00 instead of 30 

[ghostdog74]

why are you guys using DOS to do date arithmetic ? Its time to move on

@OP. Use the next better language that M$ provides you, out of the box

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WScript.Echo DateAdd("d", -1, Now)

save the above as yesterday.vbs on the command prompt

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c:\test> cscript /nologo yesterday.vbs


[nbahari]

many thx for all yr respond.

on the WScript thingy, u r saying it is out of box?  cant locate it in my PC/server. still on Win2000 & server is Win2003.

[nbahari]

sorry...  kindly ignore my earlier respond.  got it!

again, many2 thx for your help.  now jez need to further improve on getting the information out of the result...