Writing cheques

[Derek Atkins]

Well, this is the first I remember hearing about this.  Can you
file an RFE for this?

The qif parser will check through all the date entries and try to
disambiguate.  The problem, of course, is that QIF /IS/ ambiguous.
But if you see a date like 2006-13-01 you know exactly what format
you've got.  Whereas 06-03-01 is completely ambiguous.  So...  the
parser doesn't its best to figure out what the possible date formats
are based on the data you've got, and will ask the user to choose from
the resultant versions.

Yeah, it could probably be updated to make the locale format the
default choice (assuming the locale date format IS a possible choice).

-derek

Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws at hotkey.net.au> writes:

> I wouldn't call it a bug, exactly.  It is more of an unnecessary irritation.
>
> When importing a QIF, the date format defaults to m-d-y regardless of where I 
> am.  If the result would be ridiculous, it changes to d-m-y.  This was 
> present in Version 1.
>
> I am in Australia, and have accounts with two banks in Australia.  Only one 
> gives me a choice of date format when downloading.  The other serves up d-m-y 
> without asking.  In Quicken, there is a radio button in the import screen, 
> which stays where it is set.  With Gnucash, the default in this one place 
> cannot be preset.  All other date styles are set in the config.  I suppose 
> that I could edit a Scheme file somewhere and make d-m-y the first 
> alternative in the drop down menu, but what about the "keyboard and monitor" 
> users?
>
> If the QIF doesn't match the locale every time, then I think that it is more 
> likely to match it than not.  If somebody has a Swiss bank account or another 
> "overseas" one, he should be prepared to need to watch this, but not somebody 
> using local banks.
>
> (BTW, the default currency is GBP, not USD, or even the one at the top of the 
> alphabetical list.  Surely the Brits would expect the date format to match 
> the currency default.  We use their date format.)
>
> Doug L.
>
> On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 11:32 pm, Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws at hotkey.net.au> writes:
>> > First, I can see that Version 2.0 is a great advance.  A pity that the
>> > d-m-y sequence in "Import QIF" wasn't corrected.  Beuing naive, I would
>> > have thought that all of those date defaults could be set globally by the
>> > locale.
>>
>> Define "wasn't corrected"?  What bug are you referring to?  I don't
>> remember seeing this.  And as for "defaults", well, there's nothing
>> that says that your QIF creator maps to your current locale.
>>
>> -derek
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