Calculate age in objective-c
For an iPhone application I’m developing for a client I need to capture the birthdate of a user, and then show their age on a profile screen. I went looking for a function to help with this simple and tedious task, but couldn’t find any example code that could be lifted to help me, so I rolled my own. Here is what I made, steal as you see fit.
- (NSInteger)age:(NSDate *)dateOfBirth {
NSCalendar *calendar = [NSCalendar currentCalendar];
unsigned unitFlags = NSYearCalendarUnit | NSMonthCalendarUnit | NSDayCalendarUnit;
NSDateComponents *dateComponentsNow = [calendar components:unitFlags fromDate:[NSDate date]];
NSDateComponents *dateComponentsBirth = [calendar components:unitFlags fromDate:dateOfBirth];
if (([dateComponentsNow month] < [dateComponentsBirth month]) ||
(([dateComponentsNow month] == [dateComponentsBirth month]) && ([dateComponentsNow day] < [dateComponentsBirth day]))) {
return [dateComponentsNow year] - [dateComponentsBirth year] - 1;
} else {
return [dateComponentsNow year] - [dateComponentsBirth year];
}
}
