How can I get the age of someone given the date of birth in a C# datetime.
I want a precise age like 40.69 years old
This will calculate the exact age. The fractional part of the age is calculated relative to the number of days between the last and the next birthday, so it will handle leap years correctly.
The fractional part is linear across the year (and doesn't take into account the different lengths of the months), which seems to make most sense if you want to express a fractional age.
// birth date
DateTime birthDate = new DateTime(1968, 07, 14);
// get current date (don't call DateTime.Today repeatedly, as it changes)
DateTime today = DateTime.Today;
// get the last birthday
int years = today.Year - birthDate.Year;
DateTime last = birthDate.AddYears(years);
if (last > today) {
last = last.AddYears(-1);
years--;
}
// get the next birthday
DateTime next = last.AddYears(1);
// calculate the number of days between them
double yearDays = (next - last).Days;
// calcluate the number of days since last birthday
double days = (today - last).Days;
// calculate exaxt age
double exactAge = (double)years + (days / yearDays);
This would be an approximative calculation:
TimeSpan span = DateTime.Today.Subtract(birthDate);
Console.WriteLine( "Age: " + (span.TotalDays / 365.25).toString() );
BTW: see also this question on Stack Overflow: How do I calculate someone’s age in C#?
An approximite would be:
DateTime bd = new DateTime(1999, 1, 2);
TimeSpan age = DateTime.Now.Subtract(bd);
Console.WriteLine(age.TotalDays / 365.25);
The 40 years part is easy enough. But to get a truly accurate decimal point, I'm not sure how you translate the rest of the age into a decimal number. You see age is expressed in Years, Months, Days, Hours, Seconds. And the calculation isn't that easy. You have to deal with anniversary dates. Like if someone was born on January 31st, when are they 1 month old? The answer is March 1st. But in some years that is 28 days later and some years 29 days later. Here is a javascript implementation I did that tries to deal with this.
But I suppose the decimal could express the number of days since the most recent birthday anniversay divided by the number of days till the next birthday anniversary. And if you wanted to get more precise you could do it in seconds using the same principle.
But I think it is a poor representation of an age. We just don't usually represent an age like that.
And make sure your datetimes are in the same timezone for your comparisons.
You could do this:
Console.WriteLine(DateTime.Now.Date.Subtract(new DateTime(1980, 8, 1)).TotalDays / 365.25);
how much error is allowed in the fractional portion? a precise age would be
31 years, 10 days, 3 hours, etc. depending on the precision wanted.
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string birthDay = "";
_birthDay = DateTime.Parse(this.BirthDay.Value.ToString()).ToString("yyyyMMdd");
DateTime today = DateTime.Today;
int age = today.Year - _birthDay.Year;
if (_birthDay > today.AddYears(-age)) age--;
txtbox1.Text = age;
It seems error, How to calculate age from birth day?
int age = (DateTime.Today - _birthDay ).TotalDays;
if you want the difference in years you can refer this thread
TimeSpan span = DateTime.Today - _birthDay;
// because we start at year 1 for the Gregorian
// calendar, we must subtract a year here.
int age = (zeroTime + span).Year - 1;
If you want to calculate it very precision try below:
The most important thing is How many days left since you born.
the 2nd important things is how many years left since you born.
But...not every year is 365 days always.you have to consider the condition about leap year.
give you a clue:if your age is 25,assume every year is 365 days,so the days left is 365*25+x(1<=x<=365)..etc..
see:
Calculate age in C#
But you have to ask yourself about the necessary precision since timezones will affect this. In very rare cases there will some ambiguity. For example, If it's your birthday and you commit a crime when you're 17 in one timezone but 18 in another there's going to be an issue. If the answer is critical then you will need to provide some sort of message back to your user to explain some of the vagaries of computing age.
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Lets say, I have two date Order date - 1/1/2014 and Delivery date - 6/2/2014. Now if I want to calculate how much work week its taken (Order date-delivery date), how can I do it in c#.
If you want the number of worked days in a date range, you can use this:
var from = DateTime.Today.AddDays(-10);
var to = DateTime.Today;
var daysOfWeek = new DayOfWeek[] { DayOfWeek.Monday, DayOfWeek.Tuesday
, DayOfWeek.Wednesday, DayOfWeek.Friday
, DayOfWeek.Thursday };
var days = Enumerable.Range(0, 1 + to.Subtract(from).Days)
.Select((n, i) => from.AddDays(i).DayOfWeek)
.Where(n => daysOfWeek.Contains(n.DayOfWeek));
If you want the number of weeks during a date range, use this:
(int)((to - from).TotalDays/7)
(int)((DeliveryDate-OrderDate).TotalDays/7)
I am presuming by "how much workweek" you mean "how many workdays". This is not so straightforward as it depends on the culture and you need to take holidays into account.
If you rely on Mon through Fri being the work days you could use a solution similar to what was discussed in c# DateTime to Add/Subtract Working Days, counting each day from Order Date to Delivery Date for which the conditions hold.
That Q&A still leaves you with the issue of how to determine the holidays of a certain region (be warned - in Switzerland each part of the country has different holidays!).
Update: From Nagaraj's suggested link I gather that you might also refer to "weeks" as chunks (that is "how many workweeks it has taken"). If so, in turn, you will need to define how many days of a week must be taken to take the week into account...
I'm using strings and convert that to dates, because I'm not sure where you get your dates and in what form. Adjust your code accordingly.
string orderDate = #"1/1/2014";
string deliveryDate = #"6/2/2014";
// This will give you a total number of days that passed between the two dates.
double daysPassed = Convert.ToDateTime(deliveryDate).
Subtract(Convert.ToDateTime(orderDate)).TotalDays;
// Use this if you want actual weeks. This will give you a double approximate. Change to it to an integer round it off (truncate it).
double weeksPassed = daysPassed / 7;
// Use this if you want to get an approximate number of work days in those weeks (based on 5 days a week schedule).
double workDaysPassed = weeksPassed * 5;
I guess you are not interested in working days but weeks. You can use GetWeekOfYear:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.globalization.calendar.getweekofyear%28v=vs.110%29.aspx
EDIT
To respond to the comment, here some code example:
int start = System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.Calendar.GetWeekOfYear(new DateTime(2014, 1, 14), System.Globalization.CalendarWeekRule.FirstFourDayWeek, DayOfWeek.Monday);
int end = System.Globalization.CultureInfo.CurrentCulture.Calendar.GetWeekOfYear(new DateTime(2014, 2, 3), System.Globalization.CalendarWeekRule.FirstFourDayWeek, DayOfWeek.Monday);
int weeks = end - start;
That should give you the weeks needed.
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How do I calculate difference in years and months given a start and end
I use (end date - start date).TotalDays it returns total days. For example, 145 days
But I don't want total days.
It is possible to convert 145 days to 3 months and 25 days something like this.
A bit harder than it initially seems...
I suppose you could do something like this, which has the advantage of counting actual calendar months rather than estimating months to be 30days or similar.
var now = DateTime.Now;
var future = DateTime.Now.AddDays(new Random().NextDouble() * 365);
//dates above for example only
var xx = Enumerable.Range(0,int.MaxValue)
.Select(i => new{numMonths = i, date = now.AddMonths(i)})
.TakeWhile(x => x.date < future)
.Last();
var remainingDays = (future - xx.date).TotalDays;
Console.WriteLine("{0} months and {1} days",xx.numMonths,remainingDays);
if you assume a month to be 30 days, this below might help.
var start = DateTime.Today;
var end = DateTime.Today.AddDays(99);
var timeSpan = end.Subtract(start);
var months = (int)timeSpan.TotalDays / 30;
var days = timeSpan.TotalDays % 30;
var str = string.Format("{0} months, {1} days", months, days);
The difference of two DateTime objects results in a TimeSpan object. Since the time spanned by a month is not consistent among months, how would a TimeSpan object be represented by a number of months?
In order to calculate the number of months between two dates, you'd need to know the start date and end date ahead of time so you can calculate the actual number of months (keeping in mind leap years, etc.) between them.
If you want years, months, days:
Years = max number of years you can subtract from end date such that the result is still > start date.
Months = max number of months you can subtract from the previous result such that the result is still > start date.
Days = number of days between previous result and start date.
To overcome the number of days problem in a month, just look at the years and months
DateTime d1 = New DateTime(2002, 1, 1);
DateTime d2 = New DateTime(2000, 10, 1);
int years = Math.Abs((d1.Year - d2.Year));
int months = ((years * 12) + Math.Abs((d1.Month - d2.Month)));
Try use the time span to string...
I want to get a Timespan structure which represent a year in C#.
The tricky thing is that what a year is, depends on where it starts.
You can do
DateTime now = DateTime.Now;
TimeSpan span = now.AddYears(1) - now;
This would give you the 1 year timespan from the current moment to one year later
The key question here is: which year?
The length of the timespan obviously depends on whether the year you want is a leap year or not and when it starts.
If you want one year starting from today go with #sehe's answer.
If you want the current year go with #Oyvind,
If you want a reasonable approximation you can go with #Nayan, or for a 365.25 approximation use:
TimeSpan oneYearSpan = new TimeSpan(365, 6, 0, 0);
You can't, as a year doesn't have a fixed length (is it 365 or 366 days or about 365.25?). That's also why you can't have a month as TimeSpan (28, 29, 30, 31 days??)
Rough example:
TimeSpan oneYearSpan = new TimeSpan(365, 0, 0, 0);
Will this do?
DateTime intialDate = Date.Now.Date;
TimeSpan yearSpan = intialDate.AddYears(1).Subtract(intialDate)
As other peoplehave mentioned you may want to consider leap years. In that case you can intiate intialDate accordingly.
If you want to be pretty accurate you could use the number of nano seconds in a year.
I think that this moves by 0.5 seconds every century, so should be good for a long while yet!
public TimeSpan MyYear
{
get
{
// Year = 3.1556926 × 10^16 nanoseconds
return new TimeSpan(31556926000000000);
}
}
There are already some good answers on this page, this is just another option.
It depends on which year you want to represent, since not all years are of equal length.
This is the way to find the length of 2010 for example:
var timestamp = new DateTime(2011, 1, 1) - new DateTime(2010, 1, 1);
Change the year in the DateTimes to find the length of the year you want.
Here's how to do this, utilizing the IsLeapYear to determain number of day.
int span = DateTime.IsLeapYear(1996) ? 366: 365;
var year1996 = new TimeSpan(span, 0, 0, 0);
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How do I calculate someone's age in C#?
Maybe this could be silly but and I don't have issues with my age but sometimes it is good to calculate the exact age of someone, I have introduced my birthdate in my profile (01/12/1975) "dd/mm/yyyy" and it calculated 33 and I'm 32 actually still, isn't it better to calculate the exact age?
Maybe
DateTime dt1 = DateTime.Now;
TimeSpan dt2;
dt2 = dt1.Subtract(new DateTime(1975, 12, 01));
double year = dt2.TotalDays / 365;
The result of year is 32.77405678074
Could this code be OK?
Maybe this could be silly but and I don't have issues with my age but sometimes it is good to calculate the exact age of someone, I have introduced my birthdate in my profile (01/12/1975) "dd/mm/yyyy" and it calculated 33 and I'm 32 actually still, doesn't it better to calculate the exact age?
My guess would be that this is a localization issue, though I don't know how it would happen, since (at least for me) the profile has you fill out your age in the format "YYYY/MM/DD". But your birthday is one that reads as a valid date (January 12th) in traditional U.S. settings, so this is the area I'd look into. I was born in 1975, also, and my birthday is next month, and it's got my age right.
If you were born on January 12th 1975, you would be 33 years old today.
If you were born on December 1st 1975, you would be 32 years old today.
If you read the note by the birthday field when editing your profile you'll see it says "YYYY/MM/DD", I'm sure it will try to interpret dates of other formats but it looks like it interprets MM/DD/YYYY (US standard dates) in preference to DD/MM/YYYY (European standard dates). The easy fix is to enter the date of your birthday according to the suggested input style.
Actually, because of leap years, your code would be off. Since the timespan object has no TotalYears property the best way to get it would be this
Pardon the VB.Net
Dim myAge AS Integer = DateTime.Now.year - BirthDate.year
If Birthdate.month < DateTime.Now.Month _
OrElse BirthDate.Month = DateTime.Now.Month AndAlso Birthdate.Day < DateTime.Now.Day Then
MyAge -= 1
END IF
int ag1;
string st, ag;
void agecal()
{
st = TextBox4.Text;
DateTimeFormatInfo dtfi = new DateTimeFormatInfo();
dtfi.ShortDatePattern = "MM/dd/yyyy";
dtfi.DateSeparator = "/";
DateTime dt = Convert.ToDateTime(st, dtfi);
ag1 = int.Parse(dt.Year.ToString());
int years = DateTime.Now.Year - ag1;
ag = years.ToString();
TextBox3.Text = ag.ToString();
}