I am trying to use the balance command with an expr: query that includes a date: term, but I am getting incorrect results.

Here's a complete but very minimal example. I have the following journal file (with just one transaction):

2023-12-22
	expense:food            10.00
	asset:wallet

and I am running the following command:

$ hledger balance expr:'(date:2024-01 AND acct:expense:food) OR (date:2023-12 AND acct:expense:drinks)'
               10.00  expense:food
--------------------
               10.00  

As you can see, balance takes into account the transaction that occurred on 2023-12-22 (which is the only transaction in this minimal example), even though it does not match with the date term which is date:2024-01 (i.e. January of 2024). Interestingly enough, if I remove the second operand of OR, which should have been inconsequential as it is a sub-expression that doesn't match with anything, the problem goes away:

$ hledger balance expr:'(date:2024-01 AND acct:expense:food)'
--------------------
                   0  

This is counterintuitive: mathematically speaking, <subexpr1> is superset of <subexpr1> OR <subexpr2>, so removing terms from the disjunction should not make the balance smaller, it should only increase it.

Note that this problem does not affect print, as print seems to pickup the correct transactions. But it does affect register and possibly other commands.

Finally:

$ hledger --version
hledger 1.32.3, linux-x86_64