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manual: give default year directive its own section

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@ -152,23 +152,14 @@ The posting amounts within a transaction must always balance, ie add up to
##### Simple dates
Within a journal file, transaction dates always follow a year/month/day
format, although several different separator characters are accepted. Some
examples: `2010/01/31`, `2010/1/31`, `2010-1-31`, `2010.1.31`.
Within a journal (or timelog) file, dates are written as YYYY/MM/DD (year/month/day).
Hyphen (-) and period (.) are also allowed as separators.
Leading zeroes are optional.
The year may be omitted, in which case it defaults to the current
year, or you can set the default year with a
[default year directive](#default-year).
Writing the year is optional if you set a default year with a Y directive.
This is a line containing `Y` and the year; it affects subsequent
transactions, like so:
Y2009
12/15 ; equivalent to 2009/12/15
...
Y2010
1/31 ; equivalent to 2010/1/31
...
Some examples: `2010/01/31`, `1/31`, `2010-01-31`, `2010.1.31`.
##### Secondary dates
@ -579,6 +570,24 @@ Included files are also affected, eg:
include personal.journal
end
##### Default year
You can set a default year, to be used for all subsequent
[simple dates](#simple-dates) which don't specify a year.
This is a line beginning with `Y` followed by the year, like so:
Y2009
12/15 ; equivalent to 2009/12/15
...
Y2010
1/31 ; equivalent to 2010/1/31
...
This directive can also be used in [timelog files](#timelog).
##### Including other files
You can pull in the content of additional journal files, by writing lines like this: