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

This returns all previous months with the beginning and end of the month

     var now = new Date();
            var start_month = new Date();
            start_month.setMonth(now.getMonth() - 5);
            for (var d = start_month; d <= now; d.setMonth(d.getMonth() + 1)) {
                var firstDay = new Date(d.getFullYear(), d.getMonth(), 1);
                var x = new Date(firstDay);
                x.setDate(0);
                x.setDate(1);

                var date = new Date(x);
                var firstDay = new Date(date.getFullYear(), date.getMonth(), 1);
                var lastDay = new Date(date.getFullYear(), date.getMonth() + 1, 0);

                var startDate = `${firstDay.getFullYear()}-${firstDay.getMonth() + 1}-${firstDay.getDate()}`;
                var endDate = `${lastDay.getFullYear()}-${lastDay.getMonth() + 1}-${lastDay.getDate()}`;
                console.log(startDate)
                console.log(endDate)
            }