How to get yesterday's date with os.date?

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#1

Hello,

Question is in the title - how can I get yesterday’s date with os.date()?

I’d like to be able to get this and be able to store/print the value as yyyy/m/d

#2

To get yesterdays date you can use this:

os.date("%x", os.time()-86400)

Edit: Here is your formatted version

print(string.format("%s/%s/%s", os.date("%Y", os.time()-86400), os.date("%m", os.time()-86400), os.date("%d", os.time()-86400)))
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#3

You should only have to call the function once, then do all the formatting later.

local date = os.date("!*t", os.time() - 86400)
local fs = "%i/%02i/%02i"
print(string.format(fs, date.year, date.month, date.day))