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"Y years and M months" is an approximate time interval, and there is nothing wrong with it.
But "Y years, M months and D days" is a foolish thing to say, as neither years nor months have a fixed number of days.
Something like "Y years and M months (D days)" would be reasonable. Watchduck (quack) 12:14, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
- It may not satisfy your precise exactitude, but it's a format that people do use in the real world... AnonMoos (talk) 18:01, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
- Do you have an example? I mean one that can not be traced back to sloppy programmers? The WP article Lleyton Hewitt states that he "became the youngest [whatever] at the age of 20 years, 8 months and 26 days", but that comes from a template. I don't see a source stating it like that. Oldest people uses "Y+D", where the margin of error should be reasonably small. Watchduck (quack) 18:53, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
- It's not something which lends itself to a quick and simple Google search, and I feel no motivation to conduct any strenuous research (though you're welcome to do so if you wish). Frankly, since I've lived in the English-speaking world basically my whole life, while you haven't, the default presumption is that I know more about the ways things are done here than you do... AnonMoos (talk) 03:28, 19 October 2019 (UTC)