Yes, this problem will be fixed in v3. It's annoying me too. I'm currently porting the parser to C++ (almost done) and will make corresponding changes. See here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qPdNXaz5zuDQ8M9uoZFyyFis7hA0G55BEfhWhrVBsfc/edit#heading=h.72lcw09z1ob1
On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 11:33 AM Aaron Lindsay <[email protected]> wrote: > Martin, is allowing for different posting dates for different legs of a > transaction natively in beancount something you would consider for v3? > > It is somewhat of an annoyance that some transactions post to different > accounts on different dates in the real world (credit card payments sent by > billpay from checking account, paper checks mailed from health/dependent > care reimbursement accounts and later deposited, etc.). In beancount v2, > this means you may have to 'lie' to reconcile accounts with conflicting > balance assertions when a transaction needs to be on one side of a balance > boundary in one account and not in the other because a given transaction > can only have one date. Shifting the dates one way or the other can work > around this, but can also involve shifting the dates of unrelated > transactions which also need to be on one side or the other of the balance > assertion. > > I'm attempting to update my finances more frequently to turn it from a > monthly chore to to a quick daily habit (with a dose of automation for > getting the transactions to the point where I can review them), and I'm > running into issues like this more frequently. It also feels a little wrong > to me to be keeping a record of my finances that differs from my banks' > views of what happened. > > -Aaron > > p.s. To be clear, I'm guessing I can probably write a plugin to do this, > I'm just wondering if it's something fundamental enough that you would > consider putting support for it into the core of beancount. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Beancount" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/9b869b13-7a10-4aae-a77f-85193a678874n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/9b869b13-7a10-4aae-a77f-85193a678874n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Beancount" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/beancount/CAK21%2BhMSkANOq6gi6TNeYETOFqmLDu%2BJ%2BYyKDph7vYKOXcGeXw%40mail.gmail.com.
