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.
