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hey all,

I want to calculate between 2 dates to display an age...

the date of birth is 4 Feb 1981, while taking that date away from today.

I tried this, and so far it kind of works.


as I said, this works for the most part, but when I change my computer clock to test this, if I am in February at all it does not update the age.

eg. I changed my comp clock to 3 Feb 2008, the age should be 26, but its 27, why is this?

what am I doing wrong?

davy

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Basic debugging: what are the values of the variables when you don't get the expected answer?

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no matter what date in february in any year it does not move on to expected values.

so right now it should be 26, if I change comp clock to 3 feb 07, the age should be 25, it stays 26, no matter what date in feb

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This is simple math. When the result of the subtraction is not as expected, what are the unexpected values going into the subtraction operation?

Instead of saying, "I'm getting the wrong result", find out why. What wrong values are being fed into the expression? It's pretty clear that you haven't found a bug in the subtraction operator, os the problem must be in the operands. What are they? How are they different from what you expect?
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are you talking about putting in getYear instead of getFullYear?

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I think what Bear's trying to say is:
"alert()" is your friend.

if z in (x - y = z) is not what you expect wouldn't you first want to find out exactly what x and y are?

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nope still not with you

bear in mind, my brain has been on this all day.

also I am trying everything out all the time

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Ok I seen what I was kind of doing wrong,

I fixed a bit of it, I just cant get the year,



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Again, not to put words into Bear's mouth but, I think you're still missing the point about debugging.

If this were my issue, the first thing I would want to do is narrow down the two variables that are going to be used in the operation and verify what they are.

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If birth or today are not what you're expecting, then you've narrowed the problem down to one issue which you can work on exclusively until it's fixed.

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well the birthday is set and that never changes.....

todays date always changes, but is dependent of the systems time....

I thought if I get the difference of both the millisecond and then get the full year out of that? problems is leap years....

davy
p.s. so its a case fo finding the difference between the days and months...

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I have even tested this, and it does not work, it does not update properly.



davy

EDIT: I think I got this code to work well, so far:

EDIT: well tested again, and it still does not seem to update well. sometimes it does sometimes it does not, not sure what is going on.

Bearing in mind I am changing my computer clock to test this code out, and I refresh the page all the time.

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I think I finally got it.

My problem was not looking for both at the same time.

so here is my new improved code, whiter than white... hehe

hope its right, I tested by changing the comp clock from Feb 3 and Feb 4, it seems to work well.



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Actually, if compatibility with older browsers is a concern you should not use getFullYear() but getYear() instead.

Here is an explanation of why and how:
http://www.quirksmode.org/js/introdate.html#year
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