Retrieving stock prices fails

[Forest Bond]

Hi,

On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 04:44:03PM -0500, David Reiser wrote:
> On Feb 15, 2009, at 2:23 PM, Forest Bond wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:44:06PM -0700, Trevor Farlow wrote:
>>> Have you tried other pricing sources besides the two Europe entries, 
>>> Julius?
>>>
>>> I have been having consistent retrieval failure for the last few  
>>> months
>>> using the sources Single: Yahoo or Multiple: USA (Yahoo, Fool ...)  
>>> with
>>> the error: "Unable to retrieve quotes for these items:" followed by  
>>> all
>>> my securities. In response to this thread I tried the Single: Europe
>>> source and it fetched prices. Notably, however, the source Multiple:
>>> Europe (Yahoo...) fails with the same error as above.
>>
>> Bug with patch that works around the Finance::Quote / yahoo problem  
>> that causes
>> this issue:
>>
>>  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=571865
>>
>> Can you test that this patch works for you, too, and comment on the  
>> bug?
>>
> Well, you will store incorrect dates if you ever retrieve quotes on a  
> weekend.

I've withdrawn my patch.  Upgrading F::Q fixes this issue.

However, I will point out that F::Q was returning the correct quote date and
today is Sunday.

Thanks,
Forest
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Forest Bond
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