How do you calculate the age of a person, based on birthday? You can subtract the current time delivered by Get-Date from the birthday, but the result does not contain years:
#requires -Version 1.0 $birthday = Get-Date -Date '1978-12-09' $today = Get-Date $timedifference = $today - $birthday $timedifference
Here is the result:
Days : 13905 Hours : 16 Minutes : 34 Seconds : 58 Milliseconds : 575 Ticks : 12014516985758198 TotalDays : 13905.6909557387 TotalHours : 333736.582937728 TotalMinutes : 20024194.9762637 TotalSeconds : 1201451698.57582 TotalMilliseconds : 1201451698575.82
To calculate the years, take the number of “ticks” (the smallest unit of time measurement), and convert it to a datetime, then take the year and subtract one:
#requires -Version 1.0 $birthdayString = '1978-12-09' $birthday = Get-Date -Date $birthdayString $today = Get-Date $timedifference = $today - $birthday $ticks = $timedifference.Ticks $age = (New-Object DateTime -ArgumentList $ticks).Year -1 "Born on $birthdayString = $age Years old (at time of printing)"
And this is what the result would look like:
Born on 1978-12-09 = 38 Years old (at time of printing)
