Re: [Boost-users] [date_time] Get age in years

From: Peter Whaite (boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-06-27 16:15:52

Paul Giaccone <paulg_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> 
> A person born on 1 January 2003 is 365 days old on their first birthday, 
> while someone born on 1 January 2004 is 366 days old on their first 
> birthday. On their first birthdays, each of them is a year old, but the 
> second person is a day older than the first. So simply dividing by 365 
> and using the remainder for the days in the part-year would not be 
> sufficient.

There is a perl module called Date::Manip that has some ideas on how to deal with
date differences.  You can browse the documentation at cpan.org.  Look
for the DateCalc function.