Actually I think that a negative age has some real value if you think of age not as only the age of a person. What you are calculating is the total years elapsed between two dates and if you were looking at something like project delivery dates a negative data might have some real worth. Maybe a company that works with long term deliverables like construction. It might be nice to see that something was delivered more than a year ahead of schedule. Your fine code would work for such a scenario if it included negatives.

We have now seen several different approaches to the same problem. Most of them handle leap years correctly too. 😀