Cannot make budget periods that include dates work with forecast

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spiffytech

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Apr 28, 2013, 12:38:00 AM4/28/13
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I want to tell ledger to budget that I get paid on the 10th and 25th of every month. I've tried creating a budget period like this:

~ monthly from 05/10
    Income:Paychecks  $1000
    Assets:Checking

When I run this command to test whether it works, I get no forecasted transactions:

ledger --file test.dat --forecast 'd<[2013/06/01]' reg

I've tried a number of variations just to see what happens (such as "monthly in May" and "2015/05/10"), and I cannot get anything besides the core "monthly", "daily", etc. to produce anything in the forecast. 

What am I doing wrong? This is with the latest Ledger from git, commit 86d5d81.

John Wiegley

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Apr 28, 2013, 6:48:04 PM4/28/13
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>>>>> spiffytech <spiff...@gmail.com> writes:

> I want to tell ledger to budget that I get paid on the 10th and 25th of
> every month. I've tried creating a budget period like this:

> ~ monthly from 05/10
> Income:Paychecks $1000
> Assets:Checking

Doesn't 5/10 mean 5/10/2013? I would enter this as a bug in Bugzilla, please.

John
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