This means transactions can only have day-level granularity -- which has
always been the case from an data file point of view. The advantage to this
restriction is that reports will now be immune from daylight savings related
bugs, where a transaction falls to the wrong side of a --monthly report, for
example.
except for several unused parameter warnings (because there is so much code
still #if 0'd out), and one implicit conversion from long long to long which
still has to be dealt with.
old system (for example, the meaning of 'a') has yet to be restored. In the
new scheme, this will be done by definition a function outside of the value
expression logic, rather than the tight coupling between journal innards and
value expressions that occurred in 2.x.