From: Deniz Dogan <kristnjov@...>
Date: 2007-03-15T01:15:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Calculating the age given DOB

Brian Adkins wrote:
> Deniz Dogan wrote:
>> Hello, fellow rubyists.
>>
>> I have a problem. I'm trying to write a simple program which 
>> calculates the age of a person given the person's date of birth in an 
>> instance of a Date class. I have no idea what is the best way to do 
>> this. I don't feel like using any ugly "hacks" to do it, and I wonder 
>> if there is any good (perhaps mathematical) algorithm out there to 
>> solve the problem.
>>
>> --Deniz Dogan
> 
> 
> (DateTime.now - birthdate) / 365.25

And this would work with Date objects?