Years Since Today

jQuery: calculate the years since today

by Jon Fuller

HTML

1979 is <span id="sinceDate">35+</span> years today.

CSS

#sinceDate {font-weight: bold;}

JavaScript

function yearsSince() {
	var d = new Date();
  var sinceThen = d.getFullYear()-1979;
  $("#sinceDate").html(sinceThen);
}
$(document).ready(function() {
    yearsSince();
});