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doc: cli: add a new section on report start/end dates (#403)

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and more linkage among the cli date docs.
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## Smart dates
hledger's user interfaces accept a flexible "smart date" syntax (unlike dates in the journal file). Smart dates allow some english words, can be relative to today's date, and can have less-significant date parts omitted (defaulting to 1).
hledger's user interfaces accept a flexible "smart date" syntax (unlike dates in the journal file).
Smart dates allow some english words, can be relative to today's date,
and can have less-significant date parts omitted (defaulting to 1).
Examples:
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`today`, `yesterday`, `tomorrow`
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## Report intervals
## Report start & end date
Most hledger reports show the full span of time represented by the journal data, by default.
So, the effective report start and end dates will be the earliest and latest transaction or posting dates found in the journal.
Often you will want to see a shorter time span, such as the current month.
You can specify a start and/or end date using
[`-b/--begin`](#reporting-options),
[`-e/--end`](#reporting-options),
[`-p/--period`](#period-expressions)
or a [`date:` query](#queries) (described below).
All of these accept the [smart date](#smart-dates) syntax.
One important thing to be aware of when specifying end dates: as in Ledger, end dates are exclusive,
so you need to write the date *after* the last day you want to include.
Examples:
----------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------
`-b 2016/3/17` begin on St. Patrick's day 2016
`-e 12/1` end at the start of december 1st of the current year (11/30 will be the last date included)
`-b thismonth` all transactions on or after the 1st of the current month
`-p thismonth` all transactions in the current month
`date:2016/3/17-` the above written as queries instead
`date:-12/1`
`date:thismonth-`
`date:thismonth`
---
## Report intervals
A report interval can be specified so that commands like
[register](#register), [balance](#balance) and [activity](#activity) will divide their
reports into multiple subperiods. The basic intervals can be
selected with one of `-D/--daily`, `-W/--weekly`, `-M/--monthly`,
`-Q/--quarterly`, or `-Y/--yearly`. More complex intervals may be
specified with a period expression.
specified with a [period expression](#period-expressions).
Report intervals can not be specified with a [query](#queries), currently.
## Period expressions