Re: get date - 1 day

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"Hassan" <hassan@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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How can i get the value of the date i.e. one day minus todays date

I tried echo %date-1%

and even echo %date% -1


Doing date arithmetic in a batch file is cumbersome
because you have to write your own routines to
calculate the number of days since an artifical start
date, e.g. 1 January 1970. Use VB Scripting -
it has a full set of functions designed specifically
for this purpose.


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