# Time a day before?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/time-a-day-before/249660>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [January 21, 2008, 2:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/time-a-day-before/249660 "2008-01-21T14:24:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![cjj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecc23a/32.png) [@cjj](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/cjj)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2008, 2:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/time-a-day-before/249660/1 "2008-01-21T14:24:16Z")

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I’m hoping someone can help me.

Is it possible to take a date from \*$thedate = date(“j F Y”); \*  
and minus a day from that?

So if it reads 21 January 2008 is it possible to make it read 20 January 2008?

I would really appreciate some help. :trout: