From: Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: babel and computing a number of months
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 18:13:50 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d2erpw3l.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2wqcz3h97.fsf@polytechnique.org>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-02 8:14 UTC|newest]
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2014-06-02 7:25 babel and computing a number of months Alan Schmitt
2014-06-02 8:13 ` Alexis [this message]
2014-06-02 12:06 ` Alan Schmitt
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