age() function
Returns the difference between two dates.
The difference is returned as a Interval
and needs to be used with one of the following functions
in order to extract useful information:
year
month
week
day
hour
minute
second
Syntax
age(string,string)
age(datetime,datetime)
age(string,datetime)
age(datetime,string)
Arguments
string - is string. A string in date format.
datetime - is date or datetime. A date or datetime type.
Example
age('2012-05-12','2012-05-2') → Interval
use day to extract number of days
day(age('2012-05-12','2012-05-2')) → 10