Cannot change Estimate Budget Values Start Date

[Charles Day]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 8:44 PM, D P <developerperson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all:
>
> Running GnuCash 2.2.6 on Win XP. I'm unable to save a change to the Start
> Date input box in the Estimate Budget Values dialog box. I'm trying to set
> it to 3/1/2008, the date I started tracking expenses with GnuCash.  I've
> tried changing the date manually and it changes back to 08/01/2008 when I
> click the Ok button. If I try to change using the calendar, I observe no
> response when I click any day, month, or year on the calendar.  Budget
> period is 3/1/2009 and number of periods is 6.  Why am I unable to save a
> change to the Start Date input box?
>

Please see bug 545722:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=545722

There has been some discussion about possibly doing an earlier-than-usual
release with the fix, but nothing solid yet. If this is a big problem for
you, I would suggest going back to 2.2.5 until 2.2.7 gets released.

Cheers,
Charles