From 6073b56b9e97c9897ed9225aa16f405fd0e53994 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Michael <simon@joyful.com>
Date: Thu, 30 May 2013 15:16:54 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] parsing: order postings first by date, then by parse order
 when checking balance assertions

---
 hledger-lib/Hledger/Data/Journal.hs | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/hledger-lib/Hledger/Data/Journal.hs b/hledger-lib/Hledger/Data/Journal.hs
index 316f42c48..d02a34123 100644
--- a/hledger-lib/Hledger/Data/Journal.hs
+++ b/hledger-lib/Hledger/Data/Journal.hs
@@ -377,7 +377,10 @@ checkBalanceAssertionsForAccount ps
   | null errs = Right ()
   | otherwise = Left $ head errs
   where
-    errs = fst $ foldl' checkBalanceAssertion ([],nullmixedamt) $ splitAssertions ps
+    errs = fst $
+           foldl' checkBalanceAssertion ([],nullmixedamt) $
+           splitAssertions $
+           sortBy (comparing postingDate) ps
 
 -- Given a starting balance, accumulated errors, and a non-null sequence of
 -- postings to a single account with a balance assertion in the last: