# Get Current Date

**URL:** <https://forums.knack.com/t/get-current-date/7561>\
**Category:** Get Answers\
**Created:** [September 11, 2016, 11:36am UTC](https://forums.knack.com/t/get-current-date/7561 "2016-09-11T11:36:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![RezaAzmi14674](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9e8a1a/32.png) [@RezaAzmi14674](https://forums.knack.com/u/RezaAzmi14674)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2016, 11:36am UTC](https://forums.knack.com/t/get-current-date/7561/1 "2016-09-11T11:36:45Z")

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Am trying to work out the current age from a date of birth - am using an equation field. Can someone help with the correct syntax please ... whatever I try does not work!

getDateYear(CurrentYear))-getDateYear({Date of Birth})

Thanks

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**Author:** ![RezaAzmi14674](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9e8a1a/32.png) [@RezaAzmi14674](https://forums.knack.com/u/RezaAzmi14674)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 11:02pm UTC](https://forums.knack.com/t/get-current-date/7561/2 "2016-09-16T23:02:16Z")

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thank you thank you  
  
Simple and that worked!

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**Author:** ![BennetSt.L83204](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/848f3c/32.png) [@BennetSt.L83204](https://forums.knack.com/u/BennetSt.L83204)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2016, 2:24pm UTC](https://forums.knack.com/t/get-current-date/7561/3 "2016-09-16T14:24:38Z")

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It has to do with the way dates are stored, zero being 01/01/1970 usually.

Change your operator from \> to != (does not equals).

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**Author:** ![RezaAzmi14674](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9e8a1a/32.png) [@RezaAzmi14674](https://forums.knack.com/u/RezaAzmi14674)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 6:51am UTC](https://forums.knack.com/t/get-current-date/7561/4 "2016-09-12T06:51:54Z")

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That was helpful I must have missed it.   
I used this: {Date of Birth}\>0?currentTime()-{Date of Birth}:0  
Now funny thing is I got this to work in one record - but not the rest. See enclosed.  
Any ideas?

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**Author:** ![BradStevens](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forums.knack.com/bradstevens/32/140_2.png) [@BradStevens](https://forums.knack.com/u/BradStevens)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2016, 2:03am UTC](https://forums.knack.com/t/get-current-date/7561/5 "2016-09-12T02:03:49Z")

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Does either of these approaches work from the documentation? See [http://helpdesk.knackhq.com/support/solutions/articles/5000642485-calculate-age-in-years-from-birthday](http://helpdesk.knackhq.com/support/solutions/articles/5000642485-calculate-age-in-years-from-birthday)