why must periodic transactions' period expressions begin on an interval boundary ?

[Simon Michael]

http://hledger.org/manual.html#periodic-transactions:
"There is an additional constraint on the period expression: the start date must fall on a natural boundary of the interval. Eg monthly from 2018/1/1 is valid, but monthly from 2018/1/15 is not."

Would anyone remember why we added this constraint ? I find it annoying and would like to remove it.

[Dmitry Astapov]

I think it was because nobody came up with a compelling semantic at the
time. If there is a clear semantic, then it is best to drop this constraint
as it is purely artificial.

Post by Simon Michael
"There is an additional constraint on the period expression: the start
date must fall on a natural boundary of the interval. Eg monthly from
2018/1/1 is valid, but monthly from 2018/1/15 is not."
Would anyone remember why we added this constraint ? I find it annoying
and would like to remove it.
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[Simon Michael]

Thanks. I don't remember what problem it caused so I'll try removing it for simplicity.

I think it was because nobody came up with a compelling semantic at the time. If there is a clear semantic, then it is best to drop this constraint as it is purely artificial.
http://hledger.org/manual.html#periodic-transactions: <http://hledger.org/manual.html#periodic-transactions:>"There is an additional constraint on the period expression: the start date must fall on a natural boundary of the interval. Eg monthly from 2018/1/1 is valid, but monthly from 2018/1/15 is not."
Would anyone remember why we added this constraint ? I find it annoying and would like to remove it.
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