Find out the previous year date from current date in javascript

Question

I need to find out the previous year date from current date and then set as minDate in jQuery UIdatepicker in javascript

My date formaqt is dd-mm-yy

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Answer 1

Datepicker allows you to put a number as the minDate option, and it uses that as an offset from the current date. So you can write:

minDate: -365

to specify 1 year ago. This doesn't take leap years into account, though.