Business 'fancy date format'

[John Ralls]

> On Nov 8, 2016, at 2:24 PM, Robert Fewell <14ubobit at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> John,
> 
> After I sent this I thought that was the case, if you have not changed it there will not be a KVP value in the book. Just checked the raw file, the only KVP value for Business is the Company name I put in. Fired up my test file and as above the combo box is showing UTC but obviously no KVP to retrieve so report fails.
> 
> Added this to display (gnc-default-strftime-date-format) and it shows '%B %e, %Y' which I think is November 8, 2016.
> Is that equivalent to UTC ?
> 
> Looks like the reports need to test for a valid date format otherwise use the default above.
> 

Bob,

UTC is a time zone, not a date format. Perhaps you meant ISO-8601 format, which would be 2016-08-11. Ideally the default would be set by the locale, so %B %e, %Y for the US and %e %B %Y for pretty much everywhere else (modulo Amin's Jalali calendar).

You're testing master, right? There might be a difference in the formatting boost::date_time vs. maint's GDateTime that needs to be addressed. I just tested with 2.6.14 and got the expected date in the upper right on the Customer Report, having not set a format in File>Properties.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On 8 November 2016 at 21:55, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us <mailto:jralls at ceridwen.us>> wrote:
> 
> > On Nov 8, 2016, at 12:58 PM, Robert Fewell <14ubobit at gmail.com <mailto:14ubobit at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > While going through the business reports looking for any charts on master,
> > I have come across the following problem...
> >
> > Under File/Properties/Business there is an option to specify a fancy date
> > format which by default is showing UTC.
> > All I have added was a company name and saved that.
> >
> > With some test data I ran the 'Customer Report' which failed due to it not
> > retrieving the fancy date format as there is not one even though default
> > shows UTC.
> >
> > So the question, at what point should the fancy date format be saved to
> > file ?
> > should this report test for a date format, if not one use the
> > (gnc-default-strftime-date-format)
> 
> Bob,
> 
> If the user changes the setting it should be saved when she clicks "OK".
> 
> What do you have set for "Fancy Date Format"? I think the default is "Locale".
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>