browser - What's the simplest way to decrement a date in Javascript by 1 day?

Question

I need to decrement a Javascript date by 1 day, so that it rolls back across months/years correctly. That is, if I have a date of 'Today', I want to get the date for 'Yesterday'.

It always seems to take more code than necessary when I do this, so I'm wondering if there's any simpler way.

What's the simplest way of doing this?

[Edit: Just to avoid confusion in an answer below, this is a JavaScript question, not a Java one.]

Answer 1

var d = new Date();
d.setDate(d.getDate() - 1);

console.log(d);