getAge() with wrong return

Hello!

I have to check the age in my app and I use getAge() and get a wrong age. I'm in Germany, so I use German dates here:

PHP Code:

$bt2 = Time::parse($this->request->getVar('geburtstag'));
echo $bt2->getAge() 


The dates in "geburtstag" are 05.02.2008 and 03.02.2008. Today is the 04.02.2008. But both datas returns the same age 14.

What do I not see here?

See https://github.com/codeigniter4/CodeIgni...#L461-L468

It seems it considers only year.

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> Perfect for checking the age of someone based on their birthday:
https://codeigniter4.github.io/userguide...tml#getage

How do you calculate the age of someone?

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@kenjis,

If he is getting the users age should he not be using a date type method?

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See https://github.com/codeigniter4/CodeIgni...#L461-L468

It seems it considers only year.

And that's maybe wrong, because it's not the age, it's just the year.

@kenjis,

If he is getting the users age should he not be using a date type method?

For me it is a little bit wired, if I have to work with time and date. So much different ways, some provided by PHP, some by CI.

Now I upgrade an other helper, which I use to calculate date-time-diffs and it works correctly. It's actually very easy ;-) Do now wonder, it was designed to use this as my favorite diff-helper and it should to more as this helper do right now.

PHP Code:

function dateTimeDiff($older, $newer, $return = 'SEC')
{
    $date = new DateTime($older);
    $now  = new DateTime($newer);

    $diff = 0;

    switch ($return)
    {
        case ('SEC'):
        {
            $hourMulti = 60;
            $dayMulti  = 1440;

            // Minutes
            $diff = $diff + $date->diff($now)->s;

            // Hours
            $diff = $diff + $date->diff($now)->i * $hourMulti;

            // Days
            $diff = $diff + $date->diff($now)->days * $dayMulti;
            
            break;
        }
        
        case ('YEAR'):
        {
            $diff = $date->diff($now);
            
            break;
        }
    }

    return $diff;
}