Dates Shifted

[Derek Atkins]

The transaction "date posted" entry is set to midnight local time.
I don't know why we do this as opposed to, say, noon local.  But
that's what happens, so that's why the dates are shifted when you
change your local timezone.

-derek

Quoting Doug Latornell <doug-gnucash at sadahome.ca>:

> 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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