On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:48 AM, John Rakestraw <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi, Paul --
>
> On Tue, 28 Feb 2012, Paul Lathrop wrote:
> > Do people tend to use this instead of using the "posting date" metadata
> > stuff?
>
> To my mind, the decision which to use would turn on the question whether I
> want the second date associated with the entire transaction or rather just
> for one side of the transaction. But perhaps I'm misunderstanding
> something.
>

Ah, that's kinda what I thought. So, for transactions involving two
real-world accounts, like a credit card payment, you'd use the metadata
approach. For a normal purchase, you'd use the actual/effective format.
That makes sense.

--Paul

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