HELP with Date Functions!

[mham08]

I am trying to set a variable value to the current year minus 1. I've tried a number of different things, including the dateadd function. Can someone please help?

[Newsgroup_User]

Hello mham08,

What's your code for the dateadd look like?

>
> I am trying to set a variable value to the current year minus 1. I've
> tried a number of different things, including the dateadd function.
> Can someone please help?

[Dan_Bracuk]

year(now()) - 1