r23044 - gnucash/trunk/src/engine - Introduce transaction setter xaccTransSetDatePostedSecsNormalized() that ignores the time-of-day part.

[Derek Atkins]

Mike Alexander <mta at umich.edu> writes:

> --On June 13, 2013 9:35:12 AM +0200 Christian Stimming
> <christian at cstimming.de> wrote:
>
>> However, this is a perfect example to demonstrate that this usage of
>> PostedDate time-of-day part is not so good. Up until now, some of the
>> importers already set the time-of-day part, so their sorting might
>> already be  totally off, compared to the book-closing txn.
>> Effectively, the +12hours  offset in the PostedDate is being abused
>> to signal the flag "This txn is a  book-closing txn". Instead of
>> abusing the PostedDate for this, the flag should  rather be made
>> explicit, which of course means that the sorting functions must
>> check for this explicitly as well. Oh well.
>
> Other accounting software that I use has the concept of the "13th
> period" in a year for transactions of this sort.  I'm not sure how it
> is implemented, but this is essentially a period that is after the end
> of one year and before the beginning of the next.  Perhaps something
> like this could be done in Gnucash to solve this problem.

First it would imply that we have the concept of Periods instead of
assuming a period based on the transaction date.

>            Mike

-derek
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