Get yesterday's date

[Jim Wight]

"Mike C. Fletcher" <mcfletch at rogers.com> writes:

> mxDateTime is often used (and is probably the easiest approach):
> 
>  >>> from mx.DateTime import *
>  >>> now()
> <DateTime object for '2002-11-27 05:27:05.00' at 1630918>
>  >>> now()+ RelativeDateTime( days=-1, hour=0, minute=0, second=0 )
> <DateTime object for '2002-11-26 00:00:00.00' at 16880c0>
>  >>> now()+RelativeDateTime( days=-1 )
> <DateTime object for '2002-11-26 05:28:40.00' at 16881d0>
>  >>> (now()+ RelativeDateTime( days=-1, hour=0, minute=0, second=0
> )).ticks()
> 1038286800.0

Or plain old time:

>>> import time
>>> time.localtime()[:3]
(2002, 11, 27)
>>> time.localtime(time.time()-24*60*60)[:3]
(2002, 11, 26)
>>>

Jim