JavaScript - Date function throwing "is not a function" error [closed]-CodePudding

I am very new to JavaScript and it took me some time to come up with the following function in order to get current date and subtract a year from it:

function getDate() {
    var now = new Date();
    // get current timezone specific date/time
    // timezoneoffset value converts returned offset value to milliseconds
    // get current date value - 1 year
    var dateMinusOneYear = new Date(now.getTime() - 31556952000)   (now.getTimezoneOffset() * 60000);
    var dateStr =
        ("0000"   (dateMinusOneYear.getFullYear())).slice(-4)   "-"  
        ("00"   (dateMinusOneYear.getMonth()   1)).slice(-2)   "-"  
        ("00"   dateMinusOneYear.getDate()).slice(-2);
    return (dateStr);
}

When I invoke the function, I get the following error: TypeError: dateMinusOneYear.getFullYear is not a function

Can anyone please advise? Some might advise to not use the new Date method at all due to problematic reasons, but I have to use it specifically for some unrelated reasons.

CodePudding user response：

This makes no sense at all

 new Date(now.getTime() - 31556952000)   (now.getTimezoneOffset() * 60000);

Maybe you were trying to accomplish this?

   new Date(now.getTime() - 31556952000   now.getTimezoneOffset() * 60000);