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I used to have a script that was given to me that would calculate my exact age

It worked this way
alias /bday
Then my nick would post I am exactly xxxx yrs months days hours secs old.
The text part was easy to get into and edit .
alas that was one melted hard drive ago
Does anyone know how to make a script like that work?

This is what I use and seems to do exactly what you want

Regards,

I installed it and I cant get it to calculate my birthday
it wont go back as far as 10-17-1968 for some reason

Works for me when I set that date. Make sure you change the code appropriately:

;Enter your birthday infomation here:
var %birth.month = October
var %birth.day = 17
var %birth.year = 1968
var %birth.time = 00:00:00

...and don't change anything else in the code, and make sure it's all there.

Result:

* Mentality has been alive 1843weeks 5days 13hours 32minutes 39seconds (35.336247 years)
* Mentality will have a birthday in 23weeks 5days 9hours 27minutes 21seconds

Regards,

Thats what I came back with and when you divide by 52wks you come up with 35 and some change
Im 36 soon to be 37

Oh yeah, this is a limitation of $ctime. Only works until you get back to 00:00:00 January 1st 1970.

I can't remember the technical reason for that, though I'm sure someone can fill us in, and I'm not sure how to workaround it, but again, I'm sure there is a way (I guess you just need to add the lost time on to the $ctime calculation).

Regards,

I thought it was "the first PC" however that seems to be wrong
http://www.blinkenlights.com/pc.shtml
http://www.blinkenlights.com/classiccmp/imlac/
and for those interested
http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/

it seems to be an arbitrary date used as a convention in programing

on this page it lists that date as the birthday of UNIX
http://www.iee.org/Policy/Areas/SCS/problemdates.cfm
and
http://www.electromagnetic.net/press-releases/unixonegig.php

change your birth year to 1970 and add another variable:
var %birth.month = October
var %birth.day = 17
var %birth.year = 1970
var %birth.time = 00:00:00
var %difference = 31557600

(easier to figure 2 full years)

then change the line:

to

That should work for you (tested here and working with a lot larger difference)

edit: I'm sure there's a formula that could be used to actually calculate the %difference variable for you, but ... read my signature

I added it just as you indicated and it subtracted two yrs so I tried an obvious fix and changed the - toi a + and no it didnt add the time