What's the simplest way to decrement a date in Javascript by 1 day?

Question

I need to decrement a Javascript date by 1 day, so that it rolls back across months/years correctly. That is, if I have a date of \'Today\', I want to get the date for \'Ye

Answer 1

origDate = new Date();
decrementedDate = new Date(origDate.getTime() - (86400 * 1000));

console.log(decrementedDate);