Urgent:Issue with dates

[John Ralls]

> On Aug 2, 2016, at 12:32 PM, Joshua Owusu-Ansah <oa.joshua at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thanks John, for replying.
> My gnuhpcash was always quitting at the startup stage when loading user information, so I upgraded to 2.6.13.  And it worked for a while(but only when I run as administrator), then today this issue started.
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> 1. I had scheduled transaction which all run severally and the dates on them are now 2064 for year. When I saw this this morning, I disabled all scheduled transactions and then restarted. Then I noticed all months are now plus two months for posted transactions. So eg. A transaction that occurred today 08/02/2016 in now recorded as 10/02/2016 and trying to enter new expense shows date as 2064 for year.
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> 2. I am in Ghana and my windows 10 machine is set to use UTC. Today is Tue, Aug 2, 2016.
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> 3. I am not sure about daylight/summer time.
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> 4. I entered transactions this morning and the date was correct. Then I quit and came back a bit later to try to get some customer information. That is when the scheduled transactions run unexpectedly, I deleted the resulting transactions and disabled scheduled transactions. Then I noticed invoice dates are now plus two months ...
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> 5. I should be able to read XML.
> 
> Please how can you help me out of this and why I'm I having so many issues with gnucash lately?

Ghana doesn't have daylight time, so we can rule that out. Since you've been using 2.6.13 for "a while" without this issue we can assume that it's not related to any change in the GnuCash code itself.

Did you restart the computer or just GnuCash? Had you just started Windows this morning when you started GnuCash and the since-last-run went nuts? Did since-last-run create the 48 years worth of transactions that one would expect if it really thinks that it's 2064?
Have you checked the system clock (right end of the task bar) to make sure that it's showing the correct date and time?

While we're sorting this out it would be wise to backup the folder where you keep your account files and backups to be sure that you can roll back to yesterday's file if necessary.

Regards,
John Ralls