Do people tend to use this instead of using the "posting date" metadata stuff?
--Paul On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 1:06 AM, John Wiegley <[email protected]> wrote: > It has long been a point of confusion over what "actual" vs. "effective" > dates > are. For example: > > 2012-02-28=2012-03-01 KFC > Expenses:Food $10.00 > Assets:Cash > > In this example, I always considered the first date as the "actual" date > when > I bought the chicken, and the second date as when it become "effective" in > my > account. > > But others use these dates to mean other things, so I'm now changing these > to > PRIMARY and AUXILIARY dates: > > --actual-dates => --primary-date > --effective => --aux-date > > Also the value expressions to reach these values are "date" and "aux_date", > respectively. > > The old options and value expressions functions are retained for > compatibility, but are deprecated. > > John >
