Calculating age

[Vaughn Clement]

Hi

In a database you use a date of birth and calculate "today" to get the
number of days since birth div. by 365

Thank you

Vaughn Clement

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On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Mark Smith <Mark_Smith at 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
>
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