java.sql.Date (homework)

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From: Petar Popara
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 17:56

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I have a date of birth as:

java.sql.Date dateOfBirth = ...; // get from DB

I have java.util.Date as current time:

java.util.Date now = new java.util.Date();

I need to calculate how many years is someone old. I have tried this:

long oldnessInMillis = now.getTime() - dateOfBirth.getTime();
long oldnessInYears = (oldnessInMillis / (1000 * 60 * 60 * 24 * 365));

but I got unexpected results (bigger 21.5 times). Is it because of time 
zones or I have miscalculated it?

Thank you in advance. :>

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