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Finding date by subtracting X number of days from a particular date in Javascript

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I want to find date by subtracting X number of days from a particular date in JavaScript. My JavaScript function accepts 2 parameters. One is the date value and the other is the number of days that needs to be subtracted.

For example, I pass my argument date as 27 July 2009 and i pass my other argument as 3. So i want to calculate the date 3 days before 27 July 2009. So the resultant date that we should get is 24 July 2009. How is this possible in JavaScript. Thanks for any help.

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answered 15 Years ago kaceyr · Accepted Answer

Simply:

yourDate.setDate(yourDate.getDate() - daysToSubtract);