Javascript - Get Previous Months Date

Question

If i have a variable that returns a date, in the format of dd MMM yyyy, so 28 Aug 2014, how can i get the date of the previous month.

I can modify the month via:

Answer 1

For all date related activities I recommend using the moment.js library and as you are using AngularJS there is a library for this: https://github.com/urish/angular-moment.

Take a look at the moment.js documentation and you will see it makes it much easier to manipulate dates in JavaScript: http://momentjs.com/docs/#/get-set/month/

You will easily be able to solve the problem you are facing, for example:

var now = moment('01/01/2014').subtract(1, 'months').format('DD/MM/YYYY');

now would then equal 01/12/2013.

Hope this helps!