Funny currency exchanges?

[Frank H. Ellenberger]

Hi,
Am Donnerstag 13. November 2008 16:15:08 schrieb Derek Atkins:
> "Charles Day" <cedayiv at gmail.com> writes:
> >     It was by design to make sure you didn't keep adding quotes over
> >     and over for the day.  What happens if you have a rate X, then a
> >     rate Y, and then go back to rate X?  You'd have to check all the
> >     rates for the day and see if X is there, or you'd add it twice.
> >
> >     So the easy options were:
> >
> >     1) Only once per day, or
> >     2) Add for every txn, even if you wind up with duplicates.
> >
> > How about updating any existing price that was created by the transfer
> > dialog for the same day?

I am not shure, if I understand you right, but I often had the case that 
different institutions gave me different exchange rates at the same day.
Or something bad happend and the rate dropped in the noon. So I bought for a 
good rate in the morning and a bad in the evening or vice versa.

> >     Oh, and if you do #2 (or anything that's not #1) then you have
> >     the question of which quote to pull in as the default when you
> >     do create a new transaction...
> >
> >     I didn't want to answer that question.  So I punted.
>
> Umm.. I suppose that could work..
>
> -derek

Frank