Function to return age (in years) is not working properly 1

[DayLaborer]

I have the following function:

function ageInYears(bDay)
{
   //based on:  [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web/Web_Languages/JavaScript/Q_20664053.html[/URL]
   now = new Date()
   bD = bDay.split('/');
   if(bD.length==3)
   {
      born = new Date(bD[2], bD[1]*1-1, bD[0]);
      years = Math.floor((now.getTime() - born.getTime()) / (365.25 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000));
      return years;
   }
}

to which I'm passing a date, for example: 10/1/1989 The problem is that it returns the same age regardless of whether the "person" has his/her birthday this year already or not.

For example, if today (10/2/2009) I want to check the age of two people: one born on 10/1/1989 and another born on 10/3/1989, the result "20" is returned for both.

What's wrong with this function?

Thanks much,
Eliezer

 

[jaxtell]

I think its Date(year, month, day) and January is 0, December is 11. Try

born = new Date(bD[2],(bD[0])-1,bD[1]);

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[vacunita]

Nothing, your input is what's wrong.

The function expects day/month/year not month/day/year

So basically what you are saying is a person who was born on February Ten is twenty years old and a person born in March ten is also 20 years old.

Which is correct.







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[DayLaborer]

Phil, you are 100% correct. But how do I change the expected input to month/day/year ?

Thanks,
Eliezer

 

[jaxtell]

Exactly like I said. Did you try it?

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[DayLaborer]

Jaxtell, I misunderstood what you wrote in your first post. I now tried it and it works perfectly!

Thanks [star]!!!
Eliezer

 

[jaxtell]

Yeah, apparently I lack the skill of effective communication. I'm glad it worked for you.

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[vicvirk]

Eleizer,

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[DayLaborer]

No, I will not tell you that. I have never signed up for Experts Exchange, but for some reason am always able to see the "Accepted Solutions" by scrolling a-l-l the way down on their site.