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simonmichael / hledger

Robust, fast, intuitive plain text accounting tool with CLI, TUI and web interfaces.
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Periodic Transactions from last day of the month #2005

Closed jeremy-j-ackso closed 4 months ago

jeremy-j-ackso commented 1 year ago

Would be great to have a Periodic Transaction syntax to specify from the end of the month that is agnostic to the number of days in the month.

I'm thinking either (or both) of something semi-textual (last day, last-1 day, last -2 day) or is ordinal with a - preceding it (-1st day, -2nd day, -3rd day).

This would allow me to specify a periodic transaction that always occurs on the last day of the month (or near the end of the month), without having to have individual periodic transaction blocks for the specific last day of each month in the year when creating my budget.

simonmichael commented 1 year ago

Agreed.

avrahamappel commented 4 months ago

+1

Incidentally, I have so far noticed that every 31st day will move the forecasted transaction back to the 30th if there is no 31st day of the month

Not sure if this is documented or not. (If not, I hope it doesn't break!)

simonmichael commented 4 months ago

Good tip for the FAQ maybe!

avrahamappel commented 4 months ago

@simonmichael Also, just wanted to take a moment to express my gratitude for this amazing tool, and the whole PTA ecosystem as well! Just saving my poor programmer brain from having to muddle through spreadsheets is already a huge bonus!

simonmichael commented 4 months ago

Thanks @avrahamappel, glad it's helping.

simonmichael commented 4 months ago

I have added this to docs and FAQ now.