MonthsBetween

Calculate the number of whole months between two DateTime values

Declaration

Source position: dateutil.inc line 257

Arguments

Function result

Number of whole months between ANow and AThen.

Description

MonthsBetween returns the number of whole months between ANow and AThen. This number is an approximation, based on an average number of days of 30.4375 per month (average over 4 years). This means the fractional part of a month is dropped.

See also

Example

Program Example56;

{ This program demonstrates the MonthsBetween function }

Uses SysUtils,DateUtils;

Procedure Test(ANow,AThen : TDateTime);

begin
 Write('Number of months between ');
 Write(DateToStr(AThen),' and ',DateToStr(ANow));
 Writeln(' : ',MonthsBetween(ANow,AThen));
end;

Var
  D1,D2 : TDateTime;

Begin
  D1:=Today;
  D2:=Today-364;
  Test(D1,D2);
  D2:=Today-365;
  Test(D1,D2);
  D2:=Today-366;
  Test(D1,D2);
  D2:=Today-390;
  Test(D1,D2);
  D2:=Today-368;
  Test(D1,D2);
  D2:=Today-1000;
  Test(D1,D2);
End.