How do I calculate someone's age in Java?

Question

I want to return an age in years as an int in a Java method. What I have now is the following where getBirthDate() returns a Date object (with the birth date ;-)):

Answer 1

/**
 * Compute from string date in the format of yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss the age of a person.
 * @author Yaron Ronen
 * @date 04/06/2012  
 */
private int computeAge(String sDate)
{
    // Initial variables.
    Date dbDate = null;
    SimpleDateFormat dateFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss");      

    // Parse sDate.
    try
    {
        dbDate = (Date)dateFormat.parse(sDate);
    }
    catch(ParseException e)
    {
        Log.e("MyApplication","Can not compute age from date:"+sDate,e);
        return ILLEGAL_DATE; // Const = -2
    }

    // Compute age.
    long timeDiff = System.currentTimeMillis() - dbDate.getTime();      
    int age = (int)(timeDiff / MILLI_SECONDS_YEAR);  // MILLI_SECONDS_YEAR = 31558464000L;

    return age; 
}