problems getting online price quotes

[David Hampton]

On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 12:23 +0100, Anders Vinjar wrote:
> Right.
> 
> Seems the date field is'nt returned from Yahoo.  So this problem
> is somewhere at yahoo.finance?

Yes.  Yahoo is returning a bad date for this stock.  I pulled the data
by hand and double checked.  Interestingly enough, if you put this stock
into the yahoo Finance website, you also see the "Jan 1" date there.
IIRC, yahoo just displays the data it receives from Reuters and
elsewhere, so the problem could be yahoo or it could be further up the
line.

David

> Heres the output of one such call:
> 
> bash-2.05b$ dump-finance-quote -v yahoo_europe di-smb.ol
> Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
>     symbol: DI-SMB.OL            <=== required
>       date: 1/1/1970             <=== required
>   currency: NOK                  <=== required
>       last: 162.38               <=\       
>        nav:                      <=== one of these
>      price: 162.38               <=/        
>   timezone:                      <=== optional
> 
> All fields returned by Finance::Quote for stock DI-SMB.OL
> 
> stock           field  value
> -----           -----  -----
> DI-SMB.OL         ask: 
> DI-SMB.OL     avg_vol: 0
> DI-SMB.OL         bid: 
> DI-SMB.OL         cap: 
> DI-SMB.OL       close: 162.38
> DI-SMB.OL    currency: NOK
> DI-SMB.OL        date: 1/1/1970

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