Sep 5, 2022by @kodeazy

JavaScript How to subtract n number of hours from local time ?

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In this blog we will discuss on how to subtract n number of hours from the date in javascript.
To subtract from the number of hours we set the hours by getting the hours from the date object.
Below is the syntax for date object.
```
date.setHours(date.getHours()-2);
```

Below is the example porgram on subtracting n number of hours from the date object.

let date=new Date();
let n=2;
date.setHours(date.getHours()-n);
document.querySelector('#header').innerHTML = date
console.log(date);

Output:

Mon Sep 05 2022 15:56:17 GMT+0530 (India Standard Time)