Posting time bug fix proposal (simplified)

[Charles Day]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:

> "Charles Day" <cedayiv at gmail.com> writes:
>
> >     However, the closing transaction needs to be the "last" transaction
> >     of the day.
> >
> > Is there any way to tell which transactions were created by book closing?
> A
> > particular description, for example?
>
> Nope.  There's currently no tag that a txn is a book-closing txn.
> One could certainly add a tag in dialog-book-close.c.
>

That means there is no automatic way to tell a book closing transaction from
a transaction shifted by the bug. So this patch, as is, would screw up
anyone who has used the book closing feature. Is there anything in the data
file, perhaps outside of transactions, that could at least show whether the
book closing feature has been used?


> > -Charles
>
> -derek
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