How do I calculate someone's age in Java?

Question

I want to return an age in years as an int in a Java method. What I have now is the following where getBirthDate() returns a Date object (with the birth date ;-)):

Answer 1

Try to copy this one in your code, then use the method to get the age.

public static int getAge(Date birthday)
{
    GregorianCalendar today = new GregorianCalendar();
    GregorianCalendar bday = new GregorianCalendar();
    GregorianCalendar bdayThisYear = new GregorianCalendar();

    bday.setTime(birthday);
    bdayThisYear.setTime(birthday);
    bdayThisYear.set(Calendar.YEAR, today.get(Calendar.YEAR));

    int age = today.get(Calendar.YEAR) - bday.get(Calendar.YEAR);

    if(today.getTimeInMillis() < bdayThisYear.getTimeInMillis())
        age--;

    return age;
}