Slightly smarter date parsing?

[David Hampton]

On Mon, 2007-01-08 at 08:26 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 03:09:34PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
> > On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 15:16 -0600, Jamuraa wrote:
> > > I was putting my receipts in for the last half month or so recently
> > > and noticed that I had to be careful to notice the year that the
> > > receipts were in.  When putting in 12/23 or similar, I didn't get
> > > December 23, 2006, but December 23, 2007.  I thought this should be
> > > different, so I dove into the gnucash code and changed qof_scan_date
> > > slightly to choose the last year for December if the current month is
> > > January.  The patch is attached.
> > 
> > This behavior has also always annoyed me.
> 
> me too! but it only crops up once a year. How long after 1/1 are
> people still entering 12/xx items? Granted, I routinely enter 50+

Why not just type "xx[" to get the date you want?  I.E. For 12/27 you
would type the three characters "27[".  A single number is assumed to be
a day in the current month, and then the left bracket character
decrements the month by one.

David