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Par2: Months between dates
2002-08-23 -- Michael Ware
 
For just the number of months between dates: 12 * (Year(Dt1) - Year(Dt2)) + Month(Dt1) - Month(Dt2) If you're looking for fractional months (i.e. in your example March 20th is about 2/3 into the month) it's more complicated, something like: 12*(Year(Dt1)-Year(Dt2)) + Month(Dt1) - Month(Dt2) + (DAY(Dt1)/DAY(DATE(Month(Dt1)+1,1,YEAR(Dt1))+1)) - (DAY(Dt2)/DAY(DATE(Month(Dt2)+1,1,YEAR(Dt2))+1)) Carl Barnes adds: You're calc is close but you have an error in trying to find the last day of the month, you had +1 where you wanted -1. Revised calc is: MosMy = 12*(Year(Dt1)-Year(Dt2)) + Month(Dt1) - Month(Dt2) + | (DAY(Dt1)/DAY(DATE(Month(Dt1)+1,1,YEAR(Dt1))-1)) - | ! +1)) changed to -1)) (DAY(Dt2)/DAY(DATE(Month(Dt2)+1,1,YEAR(Dt2))-1)) ! +1)) changed to -1)) To keep the result a little cleaner the below code only does the DAY calc if the DAY() changes. Otherwise 6/1 to 7/1 would generate .998 instead of 1 month. It depends on how the developer wants fractional months handled. One other way would be to (Day(Dt1)-Day(Dt2))/30. MosMy2 = 12*(Year(Dt1)-Year(Dt2)) + Month(Dt1) - Month(Dt2) + | CHOOSE(DAY(Dt1)=DAY(Dt2),0, | If the Day changed (DAY(Dt1)/DAY(DATE(Month(Dt1)+1,1,YEAR(Dt1))-1)) - | (DAY(Dt2)/DAY(DATE(Month(Dt2)+1,1,YEAR(Dt2))-1)) | ) The below function computes Fractional age and is well tested. The fractional part is the days since your last Birthday divided by the days between the last two birthdays (365 or 366) BDay=DAY(DOB) BMon=MONTH(DOB) !Compute Year of the Last Birthday YOLB=YEAR(TODAY())-CHOOSE(TODAY()

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