>>>>>>>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

Moreover ... everybody will lie about their ages in the end, anyway.