How to know the age from birth date

[Emilio García-Pumarino Álvarez]

Hi!

I need know the age from birth date. Anyone know any library for do it? If not there are library for do it, how I can calculate it?

Thanks!

Emilio

[egon]

On Tuesday, 15 July 2014 22:27:06 UTC+3, Emilio García-Pumarino Álvarez wrote:

Hi!

I need know the age from birth date. Anyone know any library for do it? If not there are library for do it, how I can calculate it?

func age(birthday time.Time) int {

now := time.Now()

years := now.Year() - birthday.Year()

if now.YearDay() < birthday.YearDay(){

years--

}

return years

}

Thanks!

Emilio

[Carlos Castillo]

Go has a time package: http://golang.org/pkg/time/

Here's a most likely un-useful example: http://play.golang.org/p/tMvS17UqVg

How you want to determine "age" will guide how you use the time package to compute the answer. Egon's code is what people generally think of as "age" w.r.t. birthdays.

Also, this sounds like a homework question.

[Emilio García-Pumarino Álvarez]

Thanks all!! 

Finally, I get the function of Egon.

Carlos, yes, i'm practice with golang. I need study more it. Thanks!

Best,

Emilio

[artem...@gmail.com]

Egon function will not handle Leap year properly comparing YearDay()

You must firstly compare month then day of month