Check out Sarah Reichelt's Date & Time Library. It makes this easy, as well as several other useful time and date calculations. Cheers, - Charles
On 26 Jun 2014, at 9:44 PM, Mark Smith <mark_sm...@cpe.umanitoba.ca> wrote: > Hi, does anyone know how to calculate someones age in years from two dates? > > Currently I am doing something kludgy like: > > convert dateone from date to seconds > convert datetwo from date to seconds > put datetwo - dateone into age -- calculate the age in seconds > -- divide by the number of seconds per year > put 60*60*24*365.25 into secs_per_year > put the trunc of (age / secs_per_year) into age > > But I suspect it is only approximate. > > Thanks > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Calculating-age-tp4680687.html > Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- Charles E. Buchwald CEO/Director General Museografica Digital http://digital.museografica.com LC Developer Tools: http://buchwald.ca/developer-tools/ Email Notice: http://wp.me/P3aT4d-33 _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode