On 05-Mar-01 Nicklas af Ekenstam wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I wrote this simple function to return the current date minus supplied
> number of years:
>
> function get_birthdate($age_in_years) {
>
<snip>
> You, obviously, call it like this: echo get_birthdate(1);
> Which would return a datestring that looks like this: 05/03/2000
>
> Works nice, but the problem occurs when I try to subtract more than 31
> years which is naturall since, as far as UNIX is concerned, the world
> didn't exist then.
> (Took me a while to figure this one out though.)
>
> Any clues on how to fix this so that I can go beyond the past 31 years?
>
function get_birthdate($age_in_years) {
list ($y,$m,$d) =explode('-', date('Y-m-d'));
$bdstr=sprintf("%02d/%02d/%04d", $m, $d, $y - $age_in_years);
return($bdstr);
}
Regards,
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