Date of transaction change with time zone change

[Fabricio Lemos]

Ok John,

I'm sorry to hear that. Thank you.
On May 26, 2014 12:55 PM, "John Ralls" <jralls at ceridwen.fremont.ca.us>
wrote:

>
> On 25 May 2014, at 19:10, Fabricio Lemos <fabricio.lemos at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I moved to another country, with a different timezone, and now all of my
> > transactions date are shown as they were made the day before the actual
> > date. This bug <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137017> was
> > reported more than 10 years ago but still isn't fixed. Anybody have a
> > workaround to the problem other than changing my computer timezone to the
> > old one?
>
> Nope. It's inherent in the way GnuCash handles entry time and the (IMO
> dumb) way that bug was addressed, by setting entry time to midnight local
> of the entry date. It would have  set it to 1100 GMT for that date -- 1100
> so that the date wouldn't change on New Zealanders when going on DST -- but
> that's not what happened, so for now you're stuck.
>
> I've proposed on the dev list to use only the date, no time, for entry
> dates for version 2.8.
>
> To answer an earlier question, date/time is stored in either ISO-8601
> format (XML) or whatever is the native date/time field in the active SQL
> database. It's a 64-bit “unix” time in memory.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>