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Age in years, months and days

People search for an age in years, months, and days calculator when a single birthday year is not enough: a school form, a visa, a pediatric note, or a payroll record wants the civil breakdown of how long someone has lived from an explicit birth date to an explicit reference day.

● BetaFree · in your browser

Run — free How it works & API

Use it from WebAPIEmailTelegramApp soon

This page accepts two strict ISO calendar dates, validates that each day exists on the Gregorian calendar including leap Februaries, and returns completed years, leftover months, and leftover days. The birth date must fall on or before the reference date so civil age never runs backwards; a later birth is invalid input rather than a negative age. Month-end births such as the thirty-first of January and leap-day births on the twenty-ninth of February are resolved with calendar-month addition and end-of-month clamping, not with a host clock or the JavaScript Date object. The free browser widget and the API share one pure function, so homework checks and production jobs always agree. Successful API requests cost $0.002; failed validation is not charged.

How to use it

Enter your values in the form above. The tool checks them before calculating and shows the result on the same page.

Check your inputs

Use the labels and units shown next to each field. If something is missing or outside the allowed range, the page points to the field to fix.

Use it again or automate it

Use the browser tool for individual checks and the API when you need the same capability in an automated workflow.

What you can do with it

Get an answer now

Enter one set of values and see the result without building a spreadsheet or script.

Compare scenarios

Change one value at a time and rerun the calculation to understand what affects the result.

Automate repeated work

Use the API when the same calculation needs to run inside your product or workflow.

FAQ

How do I use this capability?

Complete the fields above and run it on this page. The form highlights anything that needs attention.

For developers — API access

Everything on this page is available programmatically. This section is for teams who want to wire it into their own systems; everyone else can just use the tool above.

API endpoint

POSThttps://api.kit.forhosting.com/life/age-in-years-months-and-days

Prefer to automate it? One authenticated POST creates the task; the result comes back by webhook or a signed link. The same capability also runs here on the web, by email and from Telegram — and soon from our app too.

Call it from your stack

curl -X POST https://api.kit.forhosting.com/life/age-in-years-months-and-days \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $KIT_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"birth_date":"1990-05-15","reference_date":"2024-08-20"}'

const res = await fetch("https://api.kit.forhosting.com/life/age-in-years-months-and-days", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": `Bearer ${process.env.KIT_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json"
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "birth_date": "1990-05-15",
    "reference_date": "2024-08-20"
  })
});
const { task_id } = await res.json();

import os, requests

res = requests.post(
    "https://api.kit.forhosting.com/life/age-in-years-months-and-days",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['KIT_KEY']}"},
    json={
    "birth_date": "1990-05-15",
    "reference_date": "2024-08-20"
},
)
task_id = res.json()["task_id"]

<?php
$res = file_get_contents("https://api.kit.forhosting.com/life/age-in-years-months-and-days", false, stream_context_create([
  "http" => [
    "method"  => "POST",
    "header"  => "Authorization: Bearer " . getenv("KIT_KEY") . "\r\nContent-Type: application/json",
    "content" => '{"birth_date":"1990-05-15","reference_date":"2024-08-20"}',
  ],
]));
$task = json_decode($res, true);

body := bytes.NewBufferString(`{"birth_date":"1990-05-15","reference_date":"2024-08-20"}`)
req, _ := http.NewRequest("POST", "https://api.kit.forhosting.com/life/age-in-years-months-and-days", body)
req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer "+os.Getenv("KIT_KEY"))
req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

Example request

{
  "birth_date": "1990-05-15",
  "reference_date": "2024-08-20"
}

Example response

{
  "task_id": "tsk_a1b2c3d4e5f6a1b2c3d4e5f6",
  "type": "life.age_in_years_months_and_days",
  "status": "queued",
  "_links": {
    "result": "/tasks/tsk_…/result"
  }
}

The API is asynchronous: the call returns a task_id immediately and the result arrives by webhook. Polling is capped at 1 req/s per task.

Pricing

Per request$0.002

Published price — no tokens, no invented credits. A failed task is never charged.

Limits

`year_min`	1
`year_max`	9999

Errors

HTTP	Code	Meaning
`401`	`unauthorized`	Missing or invalid API key.
`402`	`insufficient_balance`	Your balance doesn't cover the task price.
`404`	`unknown_type`	That task type doesn't exist.
`429`	`rate_limited`	Too many requests. Use the webhook instead of polling.

Read the full KIT documentation →