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

For strings:

curdate.substr(0, 6)+(curdate.substr(6)-1);

If you'd use a Date object, you could easily subtract a year with the set[Full]Year method.