Set Yesterday BATCH FILE

Question

If this gives me today\'s date...

SET TODAY=%date:~7,2%.%date:~-10,2%.%date:~-4,4%

...how can i get yesterday\'s date? Can I get it in the same

Answer 1

Change the order of the three variables in the 3rd last line to suit you:

:: yesterdays date
@echo off
set day=-1
echo >"%temp%\%~n0.vbs" s=DateAdd("d",%day%,now) : d=weekday(s)
echo>>"%temp%\%~n0.vbs" WScript.Echo year(s)^& right(100+month(s),2)^& right(100+day(s),2)
for /f %%a in ('cscript /nologo "%temp%\%~n0.vbs"') do set "result=%%a"
del "%temp%\%~n0.vbs"
set "YYYY=%result:~0,4%"
set "MM=%result:~4,2%"
set "DD=%result:~6,2%"
set "date-yesterday=%yyyy%-%mm%-%dd%"

echo Yesterday was "%date-yesterday%"
pause