Martin Michlmayr <[email protected]> writes:
> * Christophe Rhodes <[email protected]> [2014-08-01 11:34]:
>> consistently (i.e. there's no failure in accounting) but it's surprising
>> to me that a price with a date of this month ends up affecting last
>> month's balance sheet. Am I the only one who's surprised, or could the
>> price date handling be changed to be handled like transactions,
>> exclusively with --end?
>
> You have to add --now 2013-12-31
>
> I think --end just limits transactions but not revaluations, but --now
> gives ledger a current date which will cause it to stop revaluations
> at that date.
I think it does limit revaluations, but just with one day's offset. If
I add
P 2014/01/02 FOO $5
at the end of my example file, and specify --end 2014-01-01, the balance
is reported as $2, not $5. (In other words, this feels like a classic
fencepost, but for all I know there's an accounting reason it is the way
it is)
> I agree this is not quite intuitive but this is how it is (at the
> moment).
Thanks. OK. I am now even more confused:
csr21@aleph-null:/tmp$ ledger -f foo.ledger --end 2014-01-01 --now 2013-12-31
-X $ bal Assets
$1 Assets:A
csr21@aleph-null:/tmp$ ledger -f foo.ledger --now 2013-12-31 --end 2014-01-01
-X $ bal Assets
$2 Assets:A
That is, simply swapping the order of command-line arguments gives
different answers. Argh, is it possible that the end and now arguments
affect the same internal structure? Yes, parent->terminus.
So I think that --end 2014-01-01 --now 2013-12-31 has the semantics I
want, setting the ledger epoch and parent->terminus to 2013-12-31, while
limiting transactions to those before 2014-01-01 -- but this feels very
fragile to me, and certainly the fact that I get a different answer with
the arguments the other way round screams that something's not quite
designed right...
I would be happy to work on a patch to adjust --end's behaviour to match
up with my expectations (effectively adding the --now argument
implicitly). But before I do, I'll wait to hear an explanation of the
current design, or users of --end who are happy the way it currently
interacts with prices.
Cheers,
Christophe
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