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

From: Jason Dolan (jason_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-06-29 16:57:24

Boris wrote:
> Jason Dolan wrote:
>> I'm trying to get the age of someone in Years and/or months and/or
>> days.
>>
>> I've tried:
>>
>> date_period dp(day_clock::local_day(), birthdate);
>> cout << "You are " << dp.length() << " old" << endl;
>>
>> But that only calculates days.  Is there a static function available
>> that  will turn days into months. and days into years?
> 
> Why don't you use date::year(), date::month() and date::day() and substract 
> the values instead of date_period?
> 
> Boris 

I ended up doing something like that.  You have to keep track of leap 
years however.