How do I calculate someone's age in Java?
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I want to return an age in years as an int in a Java method. What I have now is the following where getBirthDate() returns a Date object (with the birth date ;-)):
public int getAge() {
long ageInMillis = new Date().getTime() - getBirthDate().getTime();
Date age = new Date(ageInMillis);
return age.getYear();
}
But since getYear() is deprecated I'm wondering if there is a better way to do this? I'm not even sure this works correctly, since I have no unit tests in place (yet).
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