note 86086 added to function.mktime

Here is what I use to calculate age. It took me 30 minutes to write and it's quite accurate. What it has special is that it's calculating the number of days a year has (float number), by testing if a year is a leap one or not. This number is used to compute the age.

function get_age($date_start, $date_end) {
	$t_lived = get_timestamp($date_end) - get_timestamp($date_start);
	$seconds_one_year = get_days_per_year($date_start, $date_end) * 24 * 60 * 60;
	$age = array();
	$age['years_exact'] = $t_lived / $seconds_one_year;
	$age['years'] = floor($t_lived / $seconds_one_year);
	$seconds_remaining = $t_lived % $seconds_one_year;
	$age['days'] = round($seconds_remaining / (24 * 60 * 60));
	return $age;
}
function get_timestamp($date) {
	list($y, $m, $d) = explode('-', $date);
	return mktime(0, 0, 0, $m, $d, $y);
}
function get_days_per_year($date_start, $date_end) {
	list($y1) = explode('-', $date_start);
	list($y2) = explode('-', $date_end);
	$years_days = array();
	for($y = $y1; $y <= $y2; $y++) {
		$years_days[] = date('L', mktime(0, 0, 0, 1, 1, $y)) ? 366 : 365;
	}
	return round(array_sum($years_days) / count($years_days), 2);
}

$date_birth = '1979-10-12';
$date_now = date('Y-m-d');

$age = get_age($date_birth, $date_now);
echo '<pre>';
print_r($age);
echo '</pre>';

It will display something like this:
Array
(
    [years_exact] => 28.972974329491
    [years] => 28
    [days] => 355
)
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