Show previous month 1

[faver]

hello,

I am writing a script and I need to show the previous month

I can show the current month but I have no idea how to go about showing the previous month could somebody point me in the right direcction?

Here is what I have for the current month

<% CurrDate = Now()
CurrMonthID = Month(CurrDate)
CurrMonthName = MonthName(CurrMonthID)
response.write "" & CurrMonthName %>

 

[damber]

Month() gives you the current month number.. e.g. Jan=1, feb=2 etc.

so to show the previous month simply subtract 1 and perform a bit of logic to deal with moving from Jan to Dec (1-->12)

e.g.

<% 
CurrMonthNo = Month(Now())
if CurrMonthNo = 1 then
 currMonthNo = 12 
else
 currMonthNo = currMonthNo -1
end if
CurrMonthName = MonthName(CurrMonthNo)
response.write "" & CurrMonthName %>

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[faver]

ahhhhh

Thank you damber

 

[Tarwn]

A slightly shorter method of managing this would be to simply subtract a month from now and use that as your starting point:

PrevMonth = DateAdd("m",-1,Now())
PrevMonthNo = Month(PrevMonth)
Response.Write MonthName(PrevMonthNo) & " is month #" & PrevMonthNo

Not necessarily more efficient, but a little more compact and might be a little easier to figure out 6 months later when you go to make a change.

-T