Transaction Posted Time

[Aaron Laws]

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 11:12 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

> Aaron,
>
> Actually it's worse than that. Store a transaction in the summer, then
> look at it in the winter and it's the day before.
>
> The reason for not changing it to date-only now is file compatibility. A
> newly stored file would have no time part, and that would fail to load in
> 2.6.12. If we change it now to scrub to 1100Z (sailor/flyer/military for
> 11:00AM UTC) then it will continue to load on older versions and will
> magically not flip dates even on those older versions for all but the few
> users in the time zones I mentioned at the start of the thread. This would
> also be a good time to change the input code to not blow up if there's no
> time part, but instead to set a timespec at 1100Z on the date indicated.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>

All that sounds good to me; in particular, the backwards compatibility
story seems well-developed here.