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 17, 2013 1:02:50 PM -0400 Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU>
> wrote:
>
>> If we're going to support the business features as Cash (versus
>> Accrual), then we need some way to specify that a transaction
>> "happens" in a period other than that denoted by its post-date.
>> Either that, or we need to change the way the business features post
>> to the CoA.
>
> I suppose that's correct, but I'm not sure what it has to do with the
> current discussion.  I thought we were talking about how to record the
> transaction date for book closing transactions created by Tools->Close
> Book.  Or are you generalizing the discussion to the larger topic of
> transaction dates and cash vs. accrual accounting?

I was generalizing to the larger (but similar) discussion of how you
specify the period for any transaction.  Sure, we could solve the
one-off problem of closing transactions just with a flag, but why not
solve the more general problem and hit all of them at once with just a
little bit more work?

>            Mike

-derek

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