Thanks Stefan, I finally got the age by using this code:
(2017 - year(to_date("GDate"))) Year(to_date(now()) seems to fail as there are missing brackets but I can't figure out where. Regards, Reginald Carlier Deskundige GIS Gemeente Ingelmunster, Oostrozebekestraat 4, 8770 Ingelmunster T+32 51 33 74 39www.ingelmunster.be Raadpleeg onze disclaimer -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Stefan Giese (WhereGroup) [mailto:stefan.gi...@wheregroup.com] Verzonden: dinsdag 19 december 2017 8:58 Aan: Reginald Carlier CC: qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org Onderwerp: Re: [Qgis-user] Calculate age in years with expressionbuilder I forgot: and as a workaround you can use: year(todate(now()) - year(todate("GDate")) which will produce correct ages, or you can use your own python function (expression builder->functions->new file): from qgis.core import * from qgis.gui import * from datetime import datetime from dateutil.relativedelta import relativedelta @qgsfunction(args=2, group='Python') def GetAge(values,feature,parent): ''' call this function GetAge("fromdate","todate") in years ''' d1 =datetime.strptime(values[0],"%Y-%m-%d") d2 =datetime.strptime(values[1],"%Y-%m-%d") difference = relativedelta(d2, d1) return difference Am 2017-12-19 07:48, schrieb Stefan Giese (WhereGroup): > it seems, that this is a bug, see: > https://issues.qgis.org/issues/17681 > > best regards > Stefan > > > Am 2017-12-18 15:26, schrieb Reginald: >> hello, >> >> I am calculating the age of persons with the expression builder. >> My formulae looks like this: >> year(age( to_date(now()) , "GDate" )) The result looks alright for >> people who are younger than 68 years. >> People who are born in 1949 or before get negative ages and the age >> goes from -68 to -31 (for someone born in 1913) What is wrong with my >> formulae? >> >> Regards, >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Sent from: >> http://osgeo-org.1560.x6.nabble.com/QGIS-User-f4125267.html >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-user mailing list >> Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org >> List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
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