Urgent:Issue with dates

[Joshua Owusu-Ansah]

Thank you all for your assistance.
I found an old backup and will start again from there.

Thank you.

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On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 4:24 AM, Art <pinaart at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Like others have said, it sounds like a hardware issue.
> I recently cleaned up a friends computer with a grossly-off system date
> due to the Li cell being dead after 5 or 6 years since she had bought the
> computer. The anti-malware software would not run because security
> protocols required the correct time. I measured the Li cell at about 0.30 V
> when a new one reads about 3 V. I replaced the CR2032 cell, reset the BIOS
> to factory default parameters, set the time and date, finished cleaning up
> the machine and upgraded it to Windows 10 from Windows 7.
>
> I.e., If you suspect the BIOS battery is weak, you could just replace it,
> set the time and see what happens.
>
> BTW, I'm running GC 2.6.12 under Linux (Ubuntu 16.04) and Windows 10 with
> no problems (both use the same MySQL server on the Linux machine - I just
> don't run them at the same time to maintain data integrity).
>
> - Art
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Joshua Owusu-Ansah <oa.joshua at gmail.com>
> *To:* John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us>
> *Cc:* gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> *Sent:* Tuesday, August 2, 2016 3:25 PM
> *Subject:* Re: Urgent:Issue with dates
>
> I restarted my computer after I deleted the scheduled transactions that
> run.
> That's when I noticed that the dates are now plus two months. I have
> checked system date and its fine.
>
> Now it sees today as 12/20/2061.
>
> How do I troubleshoot and resolve this, please
>
> On Aug 3, 2016 12:07 AM, "John Ralls" <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>
> >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > 2. I am in Ghana and my windows 10 machine is set to use UTC. Today is
> > Tue, Aug 2, 2016.
> > >
> > > 3. I am not sure about daylight/summer time.
> > >
> > > 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 ...
> > >
> > > 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
> >
> >
> >
>
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