Scheduled transaction date

[Mike or Penny Novack]

>KMymoney2 has a feature to set an alternative date for a scheduled transaction 
>when it falls on a weekend.  Transactions that require action can be made to 
>come up on the previous business day; direct debits can be made to come up on 
>the following business day.  I haven't seen it in Quicken, but when I 
>imported my Quicken file, I was asked to specify one or the other (or no 
>change) for each scheduled transaction.
>
>Has this been considered as a possibility for Gnucash?  I know that Gnucash 
>will import only the data, but as an extra feature in the scheduled 
>transaction editor, it might be appreciated.
>
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That's a rather difficult problem, Doug and I suspect that KMmymoney has 
only an approximate solution.

Remember that GnuCash is an multiplatform application, no presumption 
about where in the world it is being used?

I will give you a simple example that might help you understand the 
issues. I am in the US, in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, That means 
that what is or is not a "business" day will depend on both US  holidays 
and Massachusetts holidays (for example, "Patriot's Day" isn't a holiday 
in any other state). But of course even though I live here I might have 
accounts elsewhere and the bank at the other end of the transaction 
might be subject to its rules about what is or is not a business day.

So before asking that a feature of KMmymoney be included, how about 
confirming that the feature works as advertised? For example, if the 
"jurisdiction"  isn't required data then obviously KMmymoney couldn't 
actually be CORRECTLY computing "previous business day" or "following 
business day" since those would be dependent on jurisdiction. 
Understand? You would have to be able to enter along with the 
instructions to use previous/following business day a specification like 
"according to the rules for what's a business day in New South Wales 
Australia" (imaging the hundreds of different rule sets required).

Michael