Has this been decided? I'm trying to write a script that runs the following two reports: The first show the balances of income and expenses for today, the second shows the balances of assets and liabilities ending on, and including, today. The --end command as of version 3.0.0-20110325 is definitely *not* inclusive. As the result for --end today will not show any postings for today.
On Wednesday, January 21, 2009 5:53:20 PM UTC-6, John Wiegley wrote: > > On Dec 30, 2008, at 1:08 PM, [email protected] <javascript:> wrote: > > > I take the -b part to say that entries on or after the specified date > > will be included, but the "Only entries on or after that date will be > > calculated" is a bit confusing: I presume you mean that you'll report > > the entries for that date, but running calculations start with 0 on > > that > > date (reg report) and the _calculations_ start later. > > > > I take the -e part to say either that entries on or after that date > > will > > not be considered or that the ending date is inclusive, which tells me > > that that date will be included. > > > > IOW, it selects either [b,e] or [b,e), and I can't tell which, and I > > could see (b,e] or (b,e) as possibly correct. > > You know what, I'm still not totally clear on how -b and -e should > behave. Sometimes i want [b,e] and other times I want [b,e). > > I think at some point we discussed using -e vs. -E to specify > inclusive vs. exclusive. The -E case would be inclusive, and -e would > be exclusive. > > After all, if I say: -b jan -e feb, do I want to see February too, or > just January? But when giving specific dates, like -b 2001/01/01 -e > 2001/01/31, I think people would expect it to be inclusive. > > Confusing! > > As for the calculation part, using the balance start out as zero on > the -b date. > > John > > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
