On 7/11/10 8:28 PM, John Wiegley wrote:
Sounds great to me! May I borrow some of your wording for the 3.0 manual?
Absolutely.
Here's my latest attempt at documenting this, now harmonised with John's usage.
How did I do ?
# Actual/effective dates
Real-life transactions sometimes have two (or more) dates of interest.
For example, you might buy a movie ticket on friday with a debit or credit
card, and the
On Jul 11, 2010, at 11:40 AM, Simon Michael wrote:
Here's my latest attempt at documenting this, now harmonised with John's
usage. How did I do ?
Sounds great to me! May I borrow some of your wording for the 3.0 manual?
John
* Simon Michael si...@joyful.com [2010-07-06 16:37]:
in replacing the actual/effective terminology with charge/book date ?
It seems to me the latter are easier to keep straight and to talk
about, and --book is shorter than --effective.
You just mixed it up again. ;-)
actual == booking
* John Wiegley jo...@newartisans.com [2010-07-06 19:43]:
The charge book thing makes no real sense to me. I don't have books per
se.
I could create an --alt flag, meaning to just use the alternate date.
imho --effective is a good name for the option because it's the
effective date. What
On 7/7/10 2:25 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
This is because actual date is ambiguous as you can argue both ways:
effective is ambiguous too! As I tried to show.
But actual and effective have become line noise with random meaning to me now. I thought of identifying them by
which is earliest!
* Simon Michael si...@joyful.com [2010-07-07 08:31]:
I thought of identifying them by which is earliest!
I don't think that works either. Consider cashing a check: your bank
might show the transaction when you give them the check but it might
take a few days for the check to clear. I don't
* Martin Michlmayr t...@cyrius.com 2010-07-07 18:58
* Simon Michael si...@joyful.com [2010-07-07 08:31]:
I thought of identifying them by which is earliest!
I don't think that works either. Consider cashing a check: your bank
might show the transaction when you give them the check but it
On 7/6/10 12:42 PM, John Wiegley wrote:
On Jul 5, 2010, at 12:20 PM, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
* Simon Michaelsi...@joyful.com [2010-06-15 23:46]:
Martin, I had the same confusion (see
http://hledger.org/MANUAL.html#actual-and-effective-dates).
Yeah, I'd say that example is wrong.
On 7/6/10 4:24 PM, Simon Michael wrote:
In other words, I interpreted actual and effective differently when I learned
ledger, so now I'm used to appending
=BOOKDATE, and the idea of prepending BOOKDATE= seems bizarre. :) I'll try to
get my head around that before suggesting
anything.
Well.
Martin, I had the same confusion (see http://hledger.org/MANUAL.html#actual-and-effective-dates). FYI
http://books.google.com/books?id=4V8pZmpwmBYClpg=PP1dq=analysis%20patternspg=PA98#v=onepageqf=false gives alternate
terminology: charge date (when the charge is made) and booked date (when the
On Jun 13, 2010, at 5:34 AM, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
This isn't really ledger related but I hope someone can help. I
thought I understood actual vs effective dates but it seems I'm more
confused than I thought.
Actual and effective have no internal meaning to Ledger. They mean whatever
you
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