AW: AW: Closing books: reference date

[Derek Atkins]

"Jannick Asmus" <jannick.news at gmail.com> writes:

> Mike Alexander wrote:
>
>> I think you're both right.  It's using the time posted as Derek
>> says, but this transaction is excluded because it's posted time is
>> after noon on December 31.  The code in dialog-close-book.c adjusts
>> the closing date to noon on the date given:
>>
>>    cbw->close_date =
>> gnc_date_edit_get_date(GNC_DATE_EDIT(cbw->close_date_widget));
>>    cbw->close_date += (3600 * 12);  /* Add 12 hours to the timestamp
>> */
>>
>> It would seem better to set it to the last second on that day by
>> adding 3600*24-1.
>
> Thanks! Assuming this solution I hope that we are not running into the
> time zone problem.

Well, keep in mind that we're trying to make sure we get the 'right
day'..  And I was also unaware that HBCI would get posted at a 'time'
different than manual entry..  *sigh*

And yes, we could also be hitting something of the time zone problem --
have you changed timezones?

> Best wishes,
> J. 

-derek

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