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Re: date and age

Title: Re: date and age
On 3/26/05 9:12 AM, "Brian" <email@hidden> wrote:


There is a simple way to do that :  

set b_date to date "29/02/1980"

set a_date to (current date)

return (a_date - b_date) div (weeks * 52)
 
You think so? Try it for today being Feb 24, 2005. The answer will be 25, which is incorrect. The reason is that there are more than 52 weeks to a year. Even using (days * 365) will sometimes be incorrect, since some years have 366 days.


If you want a more accurate number, just change 'div' in '/'.

That's guaranteed to be inaccurate for every script run, and also to give a rather incomprehensible result with decimal fractions of a year expressed in +E scientific notation, to boot. Who thinks in terms of decimal fractions of a year? Converting the remainder to days, hours, etc. will be similar to what Robert's script did, but longer.

Just do it the way Robert did in the first place, and it will be accurate, as Matt said.

--
Paul Berkowitz
 
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