Dates Shifted

[Doug Latornell]

Changing the OS timezone back to CET (GMT+1) corrects the dates when I
restart GC.  Likewise, restarting GC after changing the OS timezone to PST
(GMT-8) reproduces the date shift to day-1.

Is there a datetime constant encoded in the data file when it is created?

Doug

On 1/13/07, Doug Latornell <doug-gnucash at sadahome.ca> wrote:
>
> Timezone is PST, nearest city is Vancouver, BC, Canada.
>
> Date and time are showing correct for here in Vancouver.
>
> Doug
>
> On 1/13/07, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
> >
> > What's your computer's date/timezone configuration?
> >
> > -derek
> >
> > Quoting Doug Latornell <doug-gnucash at sadahome.ca>:
> >
> > > I'm using GnuCash 2.0.2 on Mac OS X 10.4.8 (PPC) and am very impressed
> > and
> > > happy with it.  Kudos to the developers for a fine piece of work!
> > >
> > > I started using GC 2 or 3 months ago while I was living in
> > France.  This
> > > week I moved to the west coast of Canada.  Today I noticed that all of
> > my
> > > transactions have shifted 1 day back; i.e . a transaction that used to
> > show
> > > as 2006/12/29, now shows as 2005/12/28.  It also happened with
> > transactions
> > > I imported via OFX this morning - deposits made and posted yesterday
> > > (2007/01/12) by my bank show as 2007/01/11).
> > >
> > > My guess is that a config somewhere thinks I'm still in the GMT+1
> > timezone,
> > > having not picked up the news from OS X when I changed the system to
> > GMT-8.
> > > I've done some searching with gconftool-2 to no avail.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions?
> > >
> > > Doug
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