Subtracting days/months/years from a Date object

Question

var inputDate     = \'20/4/2010\'.split(\'/\');
var dateFormatted = new Date(parseInt(inputDate[2]), parseInt(inputDate[1]), parseInt(inputDate[0]));

var expiryDate         


        

Answer 1

A similar question has been answered here:

How to add/subtract dates with javascript?

Similar thing can be done for months and years.

For e.g.

     var date = new Date('2011','01','02');
     alert('the original date is '+date);
     var newdate = new Date(date);
     newdate.setMonth(newdate.getMonth() - 7);
     var nd = new Date(newdate);
     alert('the new date is '+nd);