cleared transactions and reconcile window (again)

[hendrik at topoi.pooq.com]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 10:19:19PM -0200, Ethy H. Brito wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 19:02:45 -0500
> Derek Atkins <warlord at MIT.EDU> wrote:
> 
> 
> > >> EH?  What OS/Distro are you using?
> > >
> > > Intel X86 Slackware Linux 10.2. (Mr. Volkerding is not a big Gnome fan)
> > >
> > > I downloaded and installed gconf-editor now.
> > 
> > Oh.  Slackware.  Feh!
> > 
> > Go reinstall a real distribution.
> 
> Funny! Very funny!! (don't blame the system for my stupidity. see bellow)
> 
> > > I sent a series of email to the list a few weeks ago.
> > > It did not stoped working at sudden. Slowly the reconciled transactions
> > > were dissapearing from Reconcile window. In one week it was 3 or 4 missing.
> > > The next week a lots were missing. At last they were all missing from
> > > Recon.
> > 
> > What's the date you choose in the reconcile dialog as the reconcile date?
> > And what's the date of the cleared transactions that aren't marked?
> 
> I can not believe it. I am a old dog and can't really learn new tricks.
> 
> The date was completely wrong. The year was 2005. I corrected it and GC
> behaved as expected. Shame om me.
> 
> I kept changing the month but forgot to look at the year. (but I can't
> explain how does 2005 was feed in there.)

I've occasionally had completely gonzo dates provided by gnucash as its 
expected statement date.  I correct them, of course, but I have a hard 
time understanding where they come from.  (using a gnucash 1.8.x)

-- hendrik