Error on datetime nullable

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I have nullable Datetime and I cannot calculate age. Please help.

public static int GetPersonAge(DateTime? birthDay, DateTime endDate)
{
    int years = endDate.Year - birthDay.Year;

    if (birthDay.Month > endDate.Month || (birthDay.Month == endDate.Month && 
      birthDay.Day > endDate.Day))
      years--;
            
      return years;
}

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Posted 8-Jul-19 4:47am

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Updated 8-Jul-19 20:47pm

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Thomas Daniels · Answer 1 · 2019-07-08T04:56:00

birthDay is a Nullable<DateTime>, so it doesn't have .Year, .Month, etc. The value of the nullable - if there is any - does. So either change your method to accept a DateTime rather than a nullable, or extract the birthDay value before using it (if there is a value - you can check this with .HasValue. If there is no value, do whatever you want to do).

F-ES Sitecore · Answer 2 · 2019-07-08T04:58:00

Solution 2

Use

birthDay.Value.Year

rather than

birthDay.Year

Same with Month etc. Your code also needs to handle for when birthDay is null so you need to decide what happens in that scenario. You can use

if (!birthDay.HasValue)
{
    // ....
}

to check.

Posted 8-Jul-19 4:58am

F-ES Sitecore

OriginalGriff · Answer 3 · 2019-07-08T05:39:00

Solution 3

In addition to using the HasValue and Value properties that have been suggested, you may find this useful: Working with Age: it's not the same as a TimeSpan![^]

Posted 8-Jul-19 5:39am

OriginalGriff

Benktesh Sharma · Answer 4 · 2019-07-08T05:48:00

Similar to the solutions provided above, first check if the birthday is null and then access the value and then year/month/day.

public static int GetPersonAge(DateTime? birthDay, DateTime endDate)
        {

            if (birthDay == null)
            {
                throw new ArgumentNullException($"Cannot calculate Age"); 
            }
            
            int years = endDate.Year - birthDay.Value.Year;

            if (birthDay.Value.Month > endDate.Month || (birthDay.Value.Month == endDate.Month &&
                                                   birthDay.Value.Day > endDate.Day))
                years--;

            return years;
        }

Anurag Gandhi · Answer 5 · 2019-07-08T20:48:00

Ideally, you should return nullable int to handle null date of birth.
Return null if birthDay is null because in that case, you can't calculate the age.

C#

public static int? GetPersonAge(DateTime? birthDay, DateTime endDate)
	{
		if(birthDay.HasValue)
		{
			int years = endDate.Year - birthDay.Value.Year;

			if (birthDay.Value.Month > endDate.Month || (birthDay.Value.Month == endDate.Month && birthDay.Value.Day > endDate.Day))
		  		years--;

		  	return years;
		}
		return null;		
	}

Error on datetime nullable

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