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Bug 350598

Summary:	Javascript function to convert birthday to age
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Sascha Vogt <sascha>
Component:	BIRT	Assignee:	Birt-Data-inbox <Birt-Data-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Xiaoying Gu <bluesoldier>
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	bluesoldier
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Sascha Vogt

2011-06-28 11:20:46 EDT

Build Identifier: 3.7.0.v20110603-BDF9E7AGTzuHfngz-8A08WvWDv8v

It would be great to have a built in Javascript function which converts dates to an age. 

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Sascha Vogt

2011-06-28 11:24:53 EDT

I used the following snippet to convert the birthday from format dd.mm.YY to an age

function getAge(birthday)
{
if(birthday==null)
	return
tmpYear = birthday.substr(6,2)
if(tmpYear>11)
	year = "19"+tmpYear
else
	year = "20"+tmpYear
month = birthday.substr(3,2)
day = birthday.substr(0,2)

today = BirtDateTime.today()
fixedBirthday = year + "-" + month + "-" + day
age = BirtDateTime.diffYear(fixedBirthday, today)
if(BirtDateTime.month(today)<month)
	age = age - 1
else if (BirtDateTime.month(today)==month)
{
	if(BirtDateTime.day(today)<day)
		age = age - 1
}

return age
}

I'm sure, this can be done better - but some sort of function would be great to have in core birt