New specification for Canadian cheques

[Mike or Penny Novack]

Maybe I can help?

I don't use the check writing function and have no idea what its 
capabilities actually are but I suspect form both the questions and 
answers I am seeing here that there might be some confusion.

The required TEXT DATA strings "date" and "yyyymmdd" have nothing to do 
with the date and how that is formatted. So the questions in this case 
should be (as far as meeting Canadian check requirements)

1) Can GnuCash put the date DATA into the format yyyymmdd and print that 
in the appropriate date position on the check? You would look for THIS 
capability where date formatting is found.

2) Can GnuCash put arbitrary CONSTANT text data at locations which you 
can specify? You would look for how to do THIS where it gives you the 
options to specify things like , company name/address, logos, sayings 
and slogans or other decorative stuff on checks, etc.
   The fact that in this case the texts are the strings "date" and 
"yyyymmdd" are irrelevant -- in other words, that these have something 
to do with Canadian legal requirements with regard to how dates appear 
on checks not relvant. As far as HOW you specify arbitrary text 
appearing on checks those strings might as well be "etad" and 
"mobyduck". As far as GnuCash check writing is concerned these are 
CONSTANTS of the background of a check. I would NOT expect to find how 
to do that described anywhere near the instructions about how to specify 
the format for check date.

Michael
 

>I know what he is saying, and I'm saying that GnuCash *does* do this,
>at least according to that preference tooltip.  That preference's
>tooltip says:  "Below the actual date, print the format of that
>date in 8 point type".  I don't know about you, but this sounds
>exactly what Paul is asking for.
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>>Exactly what this is supposed to accomplish is beyond me, and I really
>>believe it is an issue for the printers of blank check stationery, but
>>if I read the post correctly it's not an issue that can be addresses
>>by the current Gnucash.
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>Yes, it's a stupid rule.  It's there to differentiate between different
>date formats, because they could have y-m-d or y-d-m (I'm guessing).
>But Gnucash does it.
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>What it DOESN'T do is output the string "DATE" before putting the
>date in there.
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>>Ron Morse
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>-derek
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