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Vince Ashby-Smith
Vince Ashby-Smith

Reputation: 1192

Round up to the nearest year

Hi all i've searched the web but have been able to come up with a solution to this issue. Basically i want to round a number of days to the nearest year. So if i have a value of 250 days, this should round up to 1 year or if i had 400 days this would round up to 2 years. Any ideas?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 7919

Answers (2)

Jon Skeet
Jon Skeet

Reputation: 1502116

Years vary in length - should 366 days be one year or two?

Assuming a 365-day year, you would want something like:

int years = (days + 364) / 365;

... that ensures that an exact number of years doesn't round at all, but anything else rounds up.

Another alternative would be:

int years = (int) Math.Ceiling(days / 365.0);

Upvotes: 6

Anders Arpi
Anders Arpi

Reputation: 8417

Well, now that Jon Skeet commented I obviously don't stand a chance... :(

As noted in comments below, his solution is the one that should be looked at. If anyone was doubting this...

int days = 400;
int roundedYears = (days / 365) + 1

Upvotes: 0

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