Yes, that is a better way of doing it, except that Date::Calc is 1-based in it's months instead of 0-based, So if you wanted to find out for a person born in October, you would need to set $birthMonth to 10.

I find that to be an annoying feature of Date::Calc. That and the way it sets up the days of the week as (1..7) = (Monday .. Sunday). The pod sites all sorts of ISO specs that say this is the way it should be. Unfortunately, localtime and timelocal don't agree. This means an enormous opportunity for off-by-one errors if you need to switch back and forth.

In reply to Re: Re: Older people should know their age on Mercury by ehdonhon
in thread Older people should know their age on Mercury by thunders

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