Displaying yesterday's date

[dw10t]

Hello,

I found code to display yesterday's date:

echo date("Y-m-d",(time-24*3600));

But when I try it, it always says yesterday's date is in December 1969. Does anyone know what is wrong with this piece of code?

Thanks,
David.

[Merve]

should be:

echo date('Y-m-d', (time()-24*3600));

I think.... try that...If it doesn't work, tell me.

[dp777]

here is a snipet from php.net on the date() function for future and past events:

$tomorrow = mktime (0,0,0,date("m") ,date("d")+1,date("Y"));
$lastmonth = mktime (0,0,0,date("m")-1,date("d"), date("Y"));
$nextyear = mktime (0,0,0,date("m"), date("d"), date("Y")+1);

[Merve]

dw10t, time() is a function, so you need the brackets. time() gets the number of seconds since January 1, 1970, so obviously, a day earlier would be December 31, 1970. Since you didn't put time() in, it just subtracts 24 hours from January 1, 1970. Get the picture? Time isn't a constant or a predefined variable. It's a function.

[drawmack]

how about

$ts = strtotime("-1 day");
date("m-d-Y",$ts);