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Re: [O] babel and computing a number of months
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Alexis |
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Re: [O] babel and computing a number of months |
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Mon, 02 Jun 2014 18:13:50 +1000 |
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Alan Schmitt writes:
> I need to work with dates for some code/scripts I'm writing in a
> document making heavy usage of source blocks and babel evaluation. The
> good news is that I have access to many programming languages, so the
> bad news is I don't know which one to choose. The problem I want to
> solve is the following: I want to compute the number of months between
> march 1st, 2014, and the beginning of the current month (so right now
> it's 3, but on may 31st it was 2). Is there an easy way to do it in a
> babel supported language?
How about Perl with either DateTime::Moonpig:
https://metacpan.org/pod/DateTime::Moonpig
or Time::Piece:
https://metacpan.org/pod/Time::Piece
Alexis.