Yesterday's Date? [SOLVED]

[TheCaptain]

I can find today's date : (in the format I need it in)

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[Switch.Date:Format="yyMMdd",TimeZone="UTC"]

But does anybody know how to return yesterday's date? (At any given point in time)

I could -1 off the returned numeral but that's going to fail on the 1st of every month! I'm out of ideas

[jan_suhr]

There's a numerical value for a date that you can do calculations on.

Look in the documentation

Jan

[sander]

I use this in one of my transport carrier scripts to set date + 1. I think it will point you in the right direction

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	// PostNL Express 12:00 requirement
		var day = new Date();	 // today
		day.setDate(day.getDate() + 1); // Tomorrow
		var tomorrow = day.getDate()+'-'+day.getMonth()+'-'+day.getYear();

[TheCaptain]

Thanks!

I presume this is to be run through the Scripting Module?

... which our company won't currently pay for

[gabrielp]

... which our company won't currently pay for

Time to find a new company

If you can't use scripting, you might be able to subtract some time from the unformatted date in a Switch calculation. Something like [Switch.Date] - 86400000. But then I'm not sure how to format as a date again. Sorry I can't be of more help :/

[TheCaptain]

It's a running theme now Gabriel!

Company says 'Could you create XYZ'
Me 'Certainly, I just need the right equipment'
Company
Me

I'm not sure I can get the number back into a date as you say... I presume it's some sort of maths trickery. I'll have a play and report back if I find anything.

[jan_suhr]

It's a long standing request to be able to use Switch.Calucaltions to calculate date and time.

As it is you are stuck with calculate the Day value but as you say at the end or beginning of a month you're stuck.


Jan

[jan_suhr]

But it can be done with an App
Gabriel, you or me??

Then you don't need the Scripting module.



Jan

[gabrielp]

But it can be done with an App
Gabriel, you or me??

All you, buddy!

[jan_suhr]

I have now made an app that is called Date Calculator. It will hopefully be on the Enfocus Appstore at the end of the week. And it will be FREE!

You can with it add or subtract days from a given date. and it will do it correctly over a change of months.

The new date will be stored as Private data in the job, you will also get Private data for Year, Month and Day so you can play around with the dates and format for your display of the date. It will only work with dates in the format 2017-06-18.

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Jan

[sander]

Pretty cool Jan, thanks for creating such an app

[TheCaptain]

Gentlemen.

You have excelled!

Very much looking forward to this...

[jan_suhr]

Thanks,

It wasn't much of a problem since I already had the code for it in a script I made a couple of years ago.

It was just to take a snippet that could do this and make an app of it.

That is also why it is free


Jan

[TheCaptain]

This works beautifully bud. Thanks again