Calculate year and month tenure from two dates

Question

I have a form with start date and end date. How do I calculate tenure in years and months (e.g., 3 years 4 months) based on these two dates?

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Maria Pace
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markshnier__you · Answer

Here is a formula which you can adapt for the age of a person from today. You can replace the Today() with your field for the [start date].

var date MyDate = [End Date];

var text Years = ToText(Year(Today())-Year($MyDate) -

If( Month(Today())<Month($MyDate)

or

(Month(Today())=Month($MyDate) and Day(Today())<Day($MyDate)),1,0));

var text Months = If(

Month(Today()) > Month($MyDate), ToText(Month(Today()) - Month($MyDate)),

Month(Today()) = Month($MyDate) and Day(Today()) >= Day($MyDate), ToText(Month(Today()) - Month($MyDate)),

Month(Today()) = Month($MyDate) and Day(Today()) < Day($MyDate), "11",

ToText(12-(Month($MyDate) - Month(Today()))));

var text DaysDisplay = If ( Day(Today()) > Day($MyDate), ToText( Day(Today()) - Day($MyDate) ),

Day(Today()) = Day($MyDate), "0",

Day(Today()) < Day($MyDate), ToText( Day($MyDate)-Day(Today()) ));

var text RawResult=

$Years & " Year" & If ($Years <> "1","s","") & "<br>" &

$Months & " Month" & If($Months<>"1","s", "") "<br>" &

$DaysDisplay & " Day" & If($DaysDisplay<>"1","s", "");

$RawResult

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Mark Shnier (YQC)
mark.shnier@gmail.com
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mariapace · Answer

Thanks! I made the changes but get the error "Expecting duration but found text" at $RawResult. Should I change the formula type?
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markshnier__you · Answer

OK, let's go back to basics, maybe I have way over complicated this.

Can you give me an example of the start date and the end date and the response you want from the formula.

If you just want the Duration then you just subtract

[End date] - [Start Date]

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Mark Shnier (YQC)
mark.shnier@gmail.com
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mariapace · Answer

Thanks! I made the changes but get the error "Expecting duration but found text" at $RawResult. Should I change the formula type?------------------------------Maria Pace------------------------------

markshnier__you · Answer

Yes, if the result is to be in words then yes change the formula type to formula text.------------------------------Mark Shnier (YQC)mark.shnier@gmail.com------------------------------

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Calculate year and month tenure from two dates