Returns an array of day objects which occur before the specified date - Node.js Date

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Returns an array of day objects which occur before the specified date

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/**//from w  ww .  j a v a  2  s  .  com
 * Date.getDaysBeforeDate()
 * returns an array of day objects which occur before the specified date
 *
 * @date
 *    the date object from which you need to retrieve the previous days of the month
 */
Date.prototype.getDaysBeforeDate = function() {
  //declare vars
  var i;
  var iterdate = this;
  var array = []
  var n = 0;
  var oneDay = 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24;
    //create the day objects and add them to the matrix as we go
    //we can determine this by looping through and subtracting a day away from the current day until the day is less than 1
  for(i = this.getDate(); i > 1; i--) { //starting at the current day, count down until i is no longer > 0
    //calculate the day's timestamp
    iterdate = new Date(iterdate.getTime() - oneDay); //get a new object from the iterdate - one day
    array[n] = iterdate;
    n++; //iterate n

  }

  //reverse the array since we counted backwards (up front, up back, up side ... upside yo head)
  return array.reverse();

};

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