[GNC-dev] GnuCash Maint - general problem to enter year for 30.12. + 31.12. ?

[John Ralls]

> On Jan 27, 2019, at 5:20 AM, Carsten Rinke <carsten.rinke at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> today after building from the maint branch I noticed following behaviour:
> 
> Enter a new transaction with a date 31.12.2018 and press enter: 31.12.2019 is displayed.
> 
> Try to edit and set it back to 2018 by "ctrl -" and press enter: 31.12.2019 is displayed.
> 
> Try to set it to 30.12.2019 by using "-": 30.12.2020 is displayed.
> 
> Once that you change to 29.12. the year can be set normally again.
> 
> 
> I went back and built again from the 3.4 release snapshot:
> 
> Here the issue is not reproducable.
> 
> 
> Does anyone else see this, too?

Carsten,

Yes, Mike Alexander noticed it and filed https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797067 yesterday. I think there's a good chance it's the same ICU bug as the one in the "Test Failure" thread but I haven't yet had a chance to test it.

Regards,
John Ralls