How to determine BIOS age in Ubuntu

My computer is old and it sometimes will not power on. Is there a way to find its age, perhaps by looking at the BIOS installation date, in Ubuntu? I am running Ubuntu 14.04.

Here is how I found the BIOS date on my computer in Ubuntu 14.04. It requires root privileges to use this command.

sudo dmidecode -s bios-release-date

04/18/2011

If you want more information than just the BIOS date, this command will give you lots of information:

sudo dmidecode | more

# dmidecode 2.12
SMBIOS 2.5 present.
68 structures occupying 2501 bytes.
Table at 0x0009F000.

Handle 0x0000, DMI type 0, 24 bytes
BIOS Information
    Vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
    Version: 0402   
    Release Date: 04/18/2011
    Address: 0xF0000
    Runtime Size: 64 kB
    ROM Size: 2048 kB