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

The correct answer using JodaTime is:

public int getAge() {
    Years years = Years.yearsBetween(new LocalDate(getBirthDate()), new LocalDate());
    return years.getYears();
}

You could even shorten it into one line if you like. I copied the idea from BrianAgnew's answer, but I believe this is more correct as you see from the comments there (and it answers the question exactly).

Answer 2

What about this one?

public Integer calculateAge(Date date) {
    if (date == null) {
        return null;
    }
    Calendar cal1 = Calendar.getInstance();
    cal1.setTime(date);
    Calendar cal2 = Calendar.getInstance();
    int i = 0;
    while (cal1.before(cal2)) {
        cal1.add(Calendar.YEAR, 1);
        i += 1;
    }
    return i;
}

Answer 3

import java.time.LocalDate;
import java.time.ZoneId;
import java.time.Period;

public class AgeCalculator1 {

    public static void main(String args[]) {
        LocalDate start = LocalDate.of(1970, 2, 23);
        LocalDate end = LocalDate.now(ZoneId.systemDefault());

        Period p = Period.between(start, end);
        //The output of the program is :
        //45 years 6 months and 6 days.
        System.out.print(p.getYears() + " year" + (p.getYears() > 1 ? "s " : " ") );
        System.out.print(p.getMonths() + " month" + (p.getMonths() > 1 ? "s and " : " and ") );
        System.out.print(p.getDays() + " day" + (p.getDays() > 1 ? "s.\n" : ".\n") );
    }//method main ends here.
}

Answer 4

/**
 * Compute from string date in the format of yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss the age of a person.
 * @author Yaron Ronen
 * @date 04/06/2012  
 */
private int computeAge(String sDate)
{
    // Initial variables.
    Date dbDate = null;
    SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");      

    // Parse sDate.
    try
    {
        dbDate = (Date)dateFormat.parse(sDate);
    }
    catch(ParseException e)
    {
        Log.e("MyApplication","Can not compute age from date:"+sDate,e);
        return ILLEGAL_DATE; // Const = -2
    }

    // Compute age.
    long timeDiff = System.currentTimeMillis() - dbDate.getTime();      
    int age = (int)(timeDiff / MILLI_SECONDS_YEAR);  // MILLI_SECONDS_YEAR = 31558464000L;

    return age; 
}

Answer 5

I use this piece of code for age calculation ,Hope this helps ..no libraries used

private static DateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd", Locale.getDefault());

public static int calculateAge(String date) {

    int age = 0;
    try {
        Date date1 = dateFormat.parse(date);
        Calendar now = Calendar.getInstance();
        Calendar dob = Calendar.getInstance();
        dob.setTime(date1);
        if (dob.after(now)) {
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("Can't be born in the future");
        }
        int year1 = now.get(Calendar.YEAR);
        int year2 = dob.get(Calendar.YEAR);
        age = year1 - year2;
        int month1 = now.get(Calendar.MONTH);
        int month2 = dob.get(Calendar.MONTH);
        if (month2 > month1) {
            age--;
        } else if (month1 == month2) {
            int day1 = now.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
            int day2 = dob.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
            if (day2 > day1) {
                age--;
            }
        }
    } catch (ParseException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return age ;
}

Answer 6

If you are using GWT you will be limited to using java.util.Date, here is a method that takes the date as integers, but still uses java.util.Date:

public int getAge(int year, int month, int day) {
    Date now = new Date();
    int nowMonth = now.getMonth()+1;
    int nowYear = now.getYear()+1900;
    int result = nowYear - year;

    if (month > nowMonth) {
        result--;
    }
    else if (month == nowMonth) {
        int nowDay = now.getDate();

        if (day > nowDay) {
            result--;
        }
    }
    return result;
}