Dates Shifted

[Doug Latornell]

Thanks, Derek.  I've been digging around in a copy of my data file, and the
last OFX file I imported, and was coming to the conclusion that it was
something like what you describe.

I'll be staying in the PST zone for the forseable future, and plan to use
this GC data file for a long time.  So, I'll see if I can find a way to
repair the date (manually, or via a script).

Assuming I can reproduce the date-shift behaviour with a toy data file,
would you like me to file a bug report?

Thanks again for your help.

Doug

On 1/14/07, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>
> 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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