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The age( function calculates a person’s current age (in years) from their birthdate.

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Parameters

This function has one parameter:

birthdate – The person’s date of birth (see the date( function).

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Description

This function calculates a person’s current age (in years) from their birthdate. It correctly accounts for leap years.

age(date("jan 7, 1957")) ☞ 56
age(date("June 4, 2011")) ☞ 4

Note: This function is equivalent to:

yearvalue(today()) - yearvalue(birthdate) - ?(monthvalue(birthdate) > monthvalue(today()) or
    monthvalue(birthdate)=monthvalue(today()) and dayvalue(birthdate) > dayvalue(today()),1,0)

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See Also

• completedatestr( -- converts a date to text, spelling out the month and including the day of the week.
• Date Arithmetic Formulas -- performing calculations on dates, and converting between dates and text.
• Dates -- working with dates.
• datestr( -- converts a date to text using format *mm/dd/yy*.
• daystr( -- converts a date to the day of the week (for example *Sunday*).
• eurodatestr( -- converts a date to text in European format.
• longdatestr( -- converts a date to text by spelling out the month.
• Smart Dates -- keyboard entry of dates.
• years( -- converts a number of days into a number of years.
• yearsbetween( -- calculates the number of years between two dates.

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History

Version	Status	Notes
10.0	No Change	Carried over from Panorama 6.0.