Days Old Calculator

Omni's days-old calculator quickly answers a specific question and calculates how many days old you are in the blink of an eye. Keep reading to learn:

• How to calculate how old you are in days using an approximate formula;
• How to calculate your age in days exactly.

We will give you some practical examples, too. What are you waiting for?

Even though we use calendars daily, counting dates is not a trivial task at all! The structure of a calendar contains numerous pitfalls:

• Leap years: years divisible by $4$ contain $366$ days, an not $365$. However, if the year is not divisible by $400$, then it's not leap.
• Historical changes in calendars: in the past, our dates changed drastically: we still have to count these changes, but only if our problem covers those specific days!
• Months duration: the length of a month differs, and we even created mnemonics for it!

So we have:

• $7$, $31$ days long months;
• $4$, $30$ days long months; and
• $1$, $28$ days long month.

Thus the average month's length is:

This is enough to calculate how old you are in days or, at least, to give you an approximation. Say that you're born on the $21$ August, $1998$. Today's date is the $17$ January, $2023$. To calculate how old you are on this day, we first need to subtract the two dates. To do so, follow these steps:

• Calculate the difference between the days of the current date and the day of your birthday. If the latter is greater than the former, carry over $30.4$ from the months of the current date and reduce the corresponding month's number by one.
• Subtract the months' numbers. If you need to carry over from the year, add $12$ to the current month's number.
• Subtract the years.

The result of these three subtractions is a set of three numbers, corresponding to your age in years, months, and days. To convert these values in days, use the following operations:

• Leave the days untouched;
• Multiply the number of months by $30.4$.
• Multiply the number of years by $365.25$ (the average length of a year, considering the leap years).

Sum these three results to find your age in days.

You learned how to calculate how many days old you are approximately; what about learning how to do this the exact way: you can also understand how computers and our days-old calculator are performing the same task!

Due to the issues we detailed above, it's impossible to find your exact age in days using simple subtractions. To do so, we need to convert the starting and final date to Julian day.

The Julian day is a continuous quantity that measures the difference in days between a given date and a reference date. The reference date was set to January the 1^st, $4713\ \mathrm{BC}$. The conversion between the calendar date and the Julian date is given by this rather complex formula:

where:

• $D$ — The day's number, from $1$ to $31$;
• $M$ — The month's number, from $1$ to $12$; and
• $Y$ — The year.

The result of this formula is a single number. For example, the $15$ October $1978$, corresponds to the Julian day $2443796$. To calculate your age in days, simply convert both your birthday and the current date in Julian day number, and subtract them: the result will be exact!

Say that you were born on September the 1^st $1997$. Let's calculate how old you are in days on the $20$ January $2023$!

1. Subtract the number of days: $20-1= 19$.

2. Subtract the number of months. Since January has a smaller number than September, we carry over $12$ from the years: $(1\textcolor{blue}{+12})-9 = 4$.

3. Subtract the years: $(2023\textcolor{red}{-1})-1997=25$.

4. Multiply the number of months by $30.4$: $4\times30.4=121.6\approx122$.

5. Multiply the difference in years by $365.25$:

   $25\times 365=9131.25\approx9132$

6. Sum days, months in days, and years in days: $19+122+9132=9273$

The result is slightly different than the one we calculate with our days-old calculator due to the many approximations we used in our formulas!

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To calculate your age in days, follow these easy steps:

1. Calculate the difference between the current date and your birthday: find the values of years, months, and days.

2. Multiply the difference in months by 30.4 (the length of an average month).

3. Multiply the difference in years by 365.25 (the average length of a year).

4. Sum the two previous results and the difference in days to calculate how old you are in days.

To calculate how many days old you were on this date, you must:

1. Calculate the difference in years, months, and days between the two dates.
2. Convert the quantities from months and years to days by multiplying., respectively, by 30.4 (average length of a month) and 365.25 (average length of a year).
3. Sum the difference in days and the converted value, and eventually round up the result.

What you found is an approximation of your age in days on that specific date. To find a more accurate result, use an online calculator.

The hand calculations for your age in days based on the difference between the current date and your birthday suffer from a small set of approximations:

1. The changing length of the year: leap years have 366 days. You can approximate the length of a year to 365.25.
2. The varying length of the months: the result depends on the pair of months you chose.

The age you calculate can even be ten days off from the real one. Use an online calculator or more accurate methods to find your age in days!

If you were born on June 14, 1978, and today is January 18, 2023, you would be, approximately, 16288 days old. To find this result:

1. Subtract your birthday from the current date:
   • For the days: 18 - 14 = 4;
   • For the months carry over 12: (1 + 12) - 6 = 7;
   • For the years we have: 2022 - 1978 = 44.
2. Convert the last results in days:
   • 7 months are approximately equal to 7 × 30.4 ≈ 213 days;
   • 44 years corresponds to about 44 × 365.25 ≈ 16071 days.
3. To find your age in days, sum these results: 4 + 213 + 16071 = 16288.