Errors on startup

[Derek Atkins]

This is a bug, but one you can safely ignore.

-derek

Boris Goldowsky <bgoldowsky at mac.com> writes:

> 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
> 
> _______________________________________________
> gnucash-user mailing list
> gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org
> https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user

-- 
       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord at MIT.EDU                        PGP key available