>>>>>>No problem and I don't care if you use or not. Woould you tell me what do you mean by "since this class returns an incorrect result"?
>>>>>>Cetin
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>WITH CREATEOBJECT("age")
>>>>>
>>>>> .CalcAge({^1988/2/29} , {^2006/09/21 })
>>>>>
>>>>> CLEAR
>>>>>
>>>>> ? .Years , .Months , .Days
>>>>> * CHECK with the correct definition Age = (((Birth+Y)+M)+D)
>>>>> ? GOMONTH(GOMONTH({^1988/2/29},.Years*12),.Months)+.Days
>>>>> * CHECK with a bad definition
>>>>> ? GOMONTH({^1988/2/29},.Years*12+.Months) + .Days
>>>>> ? gomonth(GOMONTH({^2006/09/21} - .Days, - .Months), - .Years *12)
>>>>>ENDWITH>>>>
>>>>18 years, 6 months and 22 days. Correct. I don't understand why you say it's a bad definition. Use pen and pencil.
>>>>Cetin
>>>
>>>Cetin, try this. Do it with the above - {^1988/02/29}, {^2006/09/21}
>>>18 years, 6 months, 22 days.
>>>
>>>Now try it with {^1988/03/01}, {^2006/09/21}
>>>18 years, 6 months, 20 days
>>>
>>>It should only be 1 day less than the first attempt, not 2 days.
>>
>>The rule:
>>
>>birth + 1 then age + 1
>>
>>is not valid
>>
>>post these ages:
>>
>>{^1988/02/28}, {^2006/02/28}
>>
>>{^1988/02/29}, {^2006/02/28}
>>
>>{^1988/01/28}, {^1989/02/28}
>>
>>{^1988/01/29}, {^1989/02/28}
>>
>>{^1988/01/30}, {^1989/02/28}
>>
>>{^1988/01/31}, {^1989/02/28}
>>
>>>
>I think you meant Birth + 1 then age
-1 is not valid.
>
>I guess I have to agree, but it seems like it all comes down to not having a standard for age calculation.
>
Every standard is a birth + permutation('+y,+m,+d')
Then 6 possible standards exists.
For me, the only common sense standard is:
today = birth ,add years, add months, add days in this order.
>If {^1988/01/28}, {^1989/02/28}
>produces 1, 0, 0
>And {^1988/01/29}, {^1989/02/28}
>also produces 1, 0, 0
>then what should {^1988/01/28}, {^1989/03/01} produce?
>It gives 1, 0, 1 and that's not exactly right. Shouldn't it be 1, 0, 2?
>
>Does it make sense then to only calculate age by number of days and forget about trying to figure years and especially months?
Agree, but the social world is not a rational world
