Errors on startup

[Boris Goldowsky]

On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 07:56  AM, I wrote:

> Whenever I start up Gnucash I get the following error reported in the 
> terminal window:
>
> ** CRITICAL **: file gnc-transaction-xml-v2.c: line 443 
> (set_tran_date): assertion `tm' failed.
>
> repeated several times.  Is this normal or a cause for concern?  What 
> does it mean?
>
> I'm running 1.8.0 from the Redhat 8.0 RPMs.

I did track this down further since sending this message.  Each of 
those errors is in response to a scheduled transaction in the data 
file.  The transactions include this XML snippet:

<ts:date>1969-12-31 19:00:00 -0500</ts:date>

which is presumably an error since it can't be converted to a unix time 
value that uses 1970 as the epoch.

Am I doing something wrong, or is this a bug?

I can replicate the error with a small data file that just has two 
accounts, and one scheduled transaction.

Bng