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I need to calculate the age of a person based on a DateTime BirthDate

I was thinking
TimeSpan ts = DateTime.Now - BirthDate;

//I can get the days but not years.
// I could check each year from their year of birth, count the days in the
year and compare with the days returned from timespan

but isn't there a easy way to check the difference in years?
Thanks,
Ron Vecchi
Nov 15 '05 #1
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Maybe something like this?

http://temp.codefanatic.com/usenet/age.txt

"Ron Vecchi" <ve******@comca st.net> wrote in message
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I need to calculate the age of a person based on a DateTime BirthDate

I was thinking
TimeSpan ts = DateTime.Now - BirthDate;

//I can get the days but not years.
// I could check each year from their year of birth, count the days in the year and compare with the days returned from timespan

but isn't there a easy way to check the difference in years?
Thanks,
Ron Vecchi

Nov 15 '05 #2
DateTime.Now.Ye ar - BirthDate.Year -

(BirthDate.Mont h > DateTime.Now.Mo nth ? 1

: (BirthDate.Mont h != DateTime.Now.Mo nth) ? 0

: (BirthDate.Day > DateTime.Now.Da y) ? 1 : 0);

"Ron Vecchi" <ve******@comca st.net> wrote in message
news:uf******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP12.phx.gbl...
I need to calculate the age of a person based on a DateTime BirthDate

I was thinking
TimeSpan ts = DateTime.Now - BirthDate;

//I can get the days but not years.
// I could check each year from their year of birth, count the days in the year and compare with the days returned from timespan

but isn't there a easy way to check the difference in years?
Thanks,
Ron Vecchi

Nov 15 '05 #3
The problem with calculating the difference in years is that the legth of a
year is not a definite timespan (actual number of days in a year depends on
its number). Same problem is applicable to months... (As the documentation
states : "Due to a varying number of days in months and years, the longest
unit of time that is used by TimeSpan is the day.")
"Ron Vecchi" <ve******@comca st.net> wrote in message
news:uf******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP12.phx.gbl...
I need to calculate the age of a person based on a DateTime BirthDate

I was thinking
TimeSpan ts = DateTime.Now - BirthDate;

//I can get the days but not years.
// I could check each year from their year of birth, count the days in the year and compare with the days returned from timespan

but isn't there a easy way to check the difference in years?
Thanks,
Ron Vecchi

Nov 15 '05 #4

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