Problem - Can't set Transaction before Current Date

[Derek Atkins]

This sounds like a localization problem.  Unfortunately i think
you're going to have to find a local developer to help you with
this, because none of the current developers (as far as I know)
could work in this particular locale environment and understand
what they are reading/seeing.

You're welcome to file a bug report.

-derek

"Claus Aranha" <caranha at gmail.com> writes:

> Hello GnuCash Community,
>
> I have began using gnucash this weekend, and it seems a great program.
> However, I'm having some trouble setting new past transactions and I
> would like some help on this.
>
> I'm using v 2.0.2 (debian unstable package, built from r14936 on
> 2006-10-12.).    My system has japanese Locale set up as default
> (which gnucash seems to correctly detect, by setting the dates to use
> japanese names for year/month/day, and setting the currency for
> Japanese Yen.
>
> I'm trying to use gnucash as a personal finance manager. I enter my
> assets on saturday night, no problems, and on sunday I go on a trip.
> So today I get back home, and insert the trip expenses on the file.
> But, when I look at the transaction log (ledger), all the expenses are
> set to 1901 as their date! I When I try to manually edit the
> transfers, I cannot set the transfer date to a past date (from today).
> And whenever I try to create a new transfer with a date in the past,
> the date will be recorded as 1901.  If I'm in the new transaction
> screen, I can try to input the date by using the calendar, but if I
> click on the date field after choosing the calendar date, the date
> will revert to 1901 again. Setting transfers to the current date works
> fine, though.
>
> IF I set my locale to C or en_*, I can enter past transactions without
> a problem - but this is a crutch.
>
> Is this already reported as a bug? or is there anything I can to to
> provide more information to solve it?
>
> Thanks,

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