[AccessD] Dividing days into years and months

Thanks, Douglas, appreciated very much.

-----Original Message-----
From: Gustav Brock [mailto:gustav at cactus.dk]
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 2:30 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Dividing days into years and months


Hi Douglas

> Function Age(Date1 As Date, Date2 As Date) As String
>     Dim Y As Integer
>     Dim M As Integer
>     Dim D As Integer
>     Dim Temp1 As Date
>     Temp1 = DateSerial(Year(Date2), Month(Date1), Day(Date1))
>     Y = Year(Date2) - Year(Date1) + (Temp1 > Date2)
>     M = Month(Date2) - Month(Date1) - (12 * (Temp1 > Date2))
>     D = Day(Date2) - Day(Date1)
>     If D < 0 Then
>         M = M - 1
>         D = Day(DateSerial(Year(date2), Month(date2), 0)) + D
>     End If
>     Age = Y & " years " & M & " months " & D & " days"
> End Function

Just for the records - this Age() as well as quite a few other
Age-functions will fail for those born on 29. Feb.

Look up in the archive "Age Calc - How much have I forgotten" to see a
reliable method.

/gustav

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