On 2023-01-25, at 14:29, Ihor Radchenko <[email protected]> wrote:

> Marcin Borkowski <[email protected]> writes:
>
>>... Still, it looks like
>> there's a bug with ~Daily~ periodic transactions: if I have a ~Daily~
>> ~Food~ expense of 30 PLN, it is only counted towards my budget on days
>> an actual ~Food~ expense was made.
>
> I think that ~ Daily alone is ambiguous. When should it start? Infinite
> years back? You need to specify at least "from" in addition. Otherwise,
> what ledger does kind of makes sense - budget only when you actually
> spend. Anything else would be insane.

Well, yes and no -- I took care to supply `--begin` in my Ledger
invocation.

By the way, is there a way to supply a starting date /in the Ledger file
itself/?

Also, daily budget makes /a lot/ of practical sense.  If my monthly food
budget is, say, 600 PLN, it's Jan 25 and I've spent 480 PLN on food,
I can't immediately tell if I'm overspending or not.  For the record,
I wrote myself a very simple web app which gets data from Ledger and
displays my spending this month against budget computed /for today/ (so
in the above case it would tell me that I'm ahead of my budget).  It
would be cool if Ledger could provide such information, too...

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl

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