Comparing 2 dates and putting results in predetermined buckets

Hi all
I want to write a method which takes in as parameters 2 date objects. It works out the difference (number of years) between the 2 dates and depending on this the results are flagged against 1 of 5 buckets.
Each bucket represents the following number of years 2, 5, 10, 20 and 30. So if my first 2 dates are taken and the number of years is 23 then the date should be stored against the 20 year bucket, or if the number of years is 6 then the date should be stored against the 5 year bucket, a value of 16 would be stored in the 20 year bucket etc...
I was looking for suggestions on the neatest way of doing this - any suggestions would be appreciated.

Sorry my original post wasnt to clear.
When 2 dates are compared and the result is given e.g. 22 years - I need to add the second of the 2 dates to a container of some sort which represents 20 year things. So if the 2 dates are 01-Jan-2000 and 01-Jan-2022 then I would work out the difference in years which is 22 in this case, then the second date would be allocated to a bucket (an object which I havent decided on yet - e.g. could be a List or anything else) which hold dates which are closest to 20 years.
As in this example the difference is 22 years (not exactly 20) the logic would allocate the date to the 20 year bucket as 22 is closer to any of the other buckets:
2, 5, 10, 20 and 30. So I guess part of the logic is getting the difference in years e.g. 22 and then working out which of the 5 buckets this falls into.
I hope that makes it clearer - thanks again.

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