Date difference in years using C# [duplicate]

Answer 1

    public string GetAgeText(DateTime birthDate)
    {
        const double ApproxDaysPerMonth = 30.4375;
        const double ApproxDaysPerYear = 365.25;

        int iDays = (DateTime.Now - birthDate).Days;

        int iYear = (int)(iDays / ApproxDaysPerYear);
        iDays -= (int)(iYear * ApproxDaysPerYear);

        int iMonths = (int)(iDays / ApproxDaysPerMonth);
        iDays -= (int)(iMonths * ApproxDaysPerMonth);

        return string.Format("{0} år, {1} måneder, {2} dage", iYear, iMonths, iDays);
    }

Answer 2

This is the best code to calculate year and month difference:

DateTime firstDate = DateTime.Parse("1/31/2019");
DateTime secondDate = DateTime.Parse("2/1/2016");

int totalYears = firstDate.Year - secondDate.Year;
int totalMonths = 0;

if (firstDate.Month > secondDate.Month)
    totalMonths = firstDate.Month - secondDate.Month;
else if (firstDate.Month < secondDate.Month)
{
    totalYears -= 1;
    int monthDifference = secondDate.Month - firstDate.Month;
    totalMonths = 12 - monthDifference;
}

if ((firstDate.Day - secondDate.Day) == 30)
{
    totalMonths += 1;
    if (totalMonths % 12 == 0)
    {
        totalYears += 1;
        totalMonths = 0;
    }
}

Answer 3

I have written an implementation that properly works with dates exactly one year apart.

However, it does not gracefully handle negative timespans, unlike the other algorithm. It also doesn't use its own date arithmetic, instead relying upon the standard library for that.

So without further ado, here is the code:

DateTime zeroTime = new DateTime(1, 1, 1);

DateTime a = new DateTime(2007, 1, 1);
DateTime b = new DateTime(2008, 1, 1);

TimeSpan span = b - a;
// Because we start at year 1 for the Gregorian
// calendar, we must subtract a year here.
int years = (zeroTime + span).Year - 1;

// 1, where my other algorithm resulted in 0.
Console.WriteLine("Yrs elapsed: " + years);

Answer 4

We had to code a check to establish if the difference between two dates, a start and end date was greater than 2 years.

Thanks to the tips above it was done as follows:

 DateTime StartDate = Convert.ToDateTime("01/01/2012");
 DateTime EndDate = Convert.ToDateTime("01/01/2014");
 DateTime TwoYears = StartDate.AddYears(2);

 if EndDate > TwoYears .....

Answer 5

Here is a neat trick which lets the system deal with leap years automagically. It gives an accurate answer for all date combinations.

DateTime dt1 = new DateTime(1987, 9, 23, 13, 12, 12, 0);
DateTime dt2 = new DateTime(2007, 6, 15, 16, 25, 46, 0);

DateTime tmp = dt1;
int years = -1;
while (tmp < dt2)
{
    years++;
    tmp = tmp.AddYears(1);
}

Console.WriteLine("{0}", years);

Answer 6

I found this at TimeSpan for years, months and days:

DateTime target_dob = THE_DOB;
DateTime true_age = DateTime.MinValue + ((TimeSpan)(DateTime.Now - target_dob )); // Minimum value as 1/1/1
int yr = true_age.Year - 1;