{
  "name": "age",
  "type": "function",
  "groups": ["Date and Time"],
  "description": "Returns the difference between two dates or datetimes.<br>The difference is returned as an <code>Interval</code> and needs to be used with one of the following functions in order to extract useful information:<br /><ul><li><code>year</code></li><li><code>month</code></li><li><code>week</code></li><li><code>day</code></li><li><code>hour</code></li><li><code>minute</code></li><li><code>second</code></li></ul>",
  "arguments": [{
    "arg": "datetime1",
    "description": "a string, date or datetime representing the later date"
  }, {
    "arg": "datetime2",
    "description": "a string, date or datetime representing the earlier date"
  }],
  "examples": [{
    "expression": "day(age('2012-05-12','2012-05-02'))",
    "returns": "10"
  }, {
    "expression": "hour(age('2012-05-12','2012-05-02'))",
    "returns": "240"
  }],
  "tags": ["difference", "needs", "datetimes", "order", "extract", "information", "following", "interval", "dates", "functions", "yearmonthweekdayhourminutesecond"]
}