2.6: Changing accounting period does nothing.

[Graham P Davis]

On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 16:59:17 +0100
Geert Janssens <janssens-geert at telenet.be> wrote:

> On Wednesday 22 January 2014 15:46:36 Graham P Davis wrote:
> > I just changed the accounting period via edit - preferences and
> > using absolute dates. I was a bit concerned that the only button
> > available on the panel was 'close' and found that I was right to be
> > so as the change of dates was not saved.
> > 
> > I've bypassed the problem by changing the period within the report I
> > was producing. Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug? As I
> > only have to change this once per year, I don't recall what buttons
> > were available on the preferences panel last year.
> 
> That's most likely a bug. The dates should be saved the moment you
> enter them.
> 
> Unfortunately I can't reproduce this. On my system (Fedora 19) it
> does save the values.
> 
> Which OS are you using and what is your date format ?
> 

Date format is DD/MM/YYYY and O/S is Linux (see sig for details).

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