Y2K

[Derek Atkins]

"Michael D. Crawford" <crawford at goingware.com> writes:

> I'm using Gnucash 1.8.8 on PowerPC debian testing.
>
> It seems that a date entered as "4/1/04" is considered different from
> "4/1/2004".  The first is displayed just as I wrote it, but the second
> is printed in the window as "4/1/20".
>
> What is really odd is that when I started up Gnucash today, and opened
> a window to put some transactions in, there was an empty transaction
> waiting to receive data that had the date "4/1/04" - so Gnucash knew
> what day it was, but after I entered it, it was sorted in the table to
> before all of my transactions where I had entered "2004" as the date.
>
> What's the right way to enter dates in Gnucash, so it really has the
> right date? My transaction dates aren't consistent right now.  I can
> go fix them so they're all the same way, but I need to know what the
> right format is.

It depends on your locale.  Whatever is printed in the register
is the format you need to use.  Based on what you've said, the locale
requires MM/DD/YY.  When you enter in 4/1/2004 it gets truncated
by the locale to 4/1/20 (since it's looking for a 2-digit year).

If you change your locale it will require a different type of entry.

> Thanks!

-derek

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