calculating exact age

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at bestweb.net
Thu Nov 25 07:21:42 PST 2004


Peter Klaassen - NCC vof wrote:
> 
> >     Age = int( (Today - Birthday)/"365.25" )
> 
> Ken,
> 
> This oneliner exactly does the trick, thanks a lot.
> I also found out that no matter what type of date edit you use (@td,
> @t4, mdy, dmy, mdyy, dmyy, ect.), all can be calculated with, no
> matter if they are different within one calculation.

As long as PFCMARK is set properly, you can use 2-digit-year dates into
the 21st century.  However, you are still limited to a 100-year range,
so if you have a birthday in 1915, you can't also have a loan payoff
date in 2020.

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