YearsBetween

Calculate the number of whole years between two TDateTime values.

Declaration

Source position: dateutil.inc line 278

Arguments

Function result

Number of whole years between ANow and AThen.

Description

YearsBetween returns the number of whole years between ANow and AThen. This number is an approximation, based on an average number of days of 365.25 per year (average over 4 years). This means the fractional part of a year is dropped.

See also

Example

Program Example55;

{ This program demonstrates the YearsBetween function }

Uses SysUtils,DateUtils;

Procedure Test(ANow,AThen : TDateTime);

begin
 Write('Number of years between ');
 Write(DateToStr(AThen),' and ',DateToStr(ANow));
 Writeln(' : ',YearsBetween(ANow,AThen));
end;

Var
  D1,D2 : TDateTime;

Begin
  D1:=Today;
  D2:=Today-364;
  Test(D1,D2);
  D2:=Today-365;
  Test(D1,D2);
  D2:=Today-366;
  Test(D1,D2);
  D2:=Today-390;
  Test(D1,D2);
  D2:=Today-368;
  Test(D1,D2);
  D2:=Today-1000;
  Test(D1,D2);
End.