Re: [O] babel and computing a number of months

[Alexis]

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.