How to get yesterday date in Delphi

Question

I know you can get the current time using the Now() function, but how would you get the date of yesterday?

https://www.embarcadero.com/resources/white-papers – Delphi Coder Feb 26 '22 at 18:22 — Delphi Coder, Feb 26 '22 at 18:22
@DelphiCoder the link no longer works. – dummzeuch Mar 11 '23 at 11:21 — dummzeuch, Mar 11 '23 at 11:21
@dummzeuch still working here! – Delphi Coder Mar 11 '23 at 15:10 — Delphi Coder, Mar 11 '23 at 15:10
Apparently a temporary issue. Now it works. – dummzeuch Mar 13 '23 at 08:30 — dummzeuch, Mar 13 '23 at 08:30

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 26 '22 at 15:52

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Why not just use Date - 1 ?

Since one day is 1.0 in TDateTime encoding, substracting 1 is enough.

answered Feb 26 '22 at 15:52

Arnaud Bouchez

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