From: Clifford Heath <no@...>
Date: 2007-03-15T01:50:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Calculating the age given DOB

Brian Adkins wrote:
> Clifford Heath wrote:
>> Brian Adkins wrote:
>>> (DateTime.now - birthdate) / 365.25
> Do you mind if I ask why you make the statement, "That's not very 
> reliable." ?

I have written genealogy software, and sometimes I want to know
how old someone was on a given date, like when they married.
1900 was not a leap year, as I'm sure you know. Neither was
1800 or 1700, but 1600 was. Does that make more sense now?

If I write a "library function" like this, I like to be a stickler,
because it's usually myself that gets tripped up.