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.
>
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