New Transaction field in the register

[Jason Dunham]

On 02/10/2010 10:43 PM, Mike Alexander wrote:

> > --On February 10, 2010 8:49:23 PM -0500 Volker Englisch
> > <Volker at englisch.us> wrote:
> >
> >> Does an option exist that allows me to suppress the display of these
> >> newly displayed transaction dates and go back to the former display?
> >>
> >> If such an option doesn't exist what would happen if I were to delete
> >> those dates?  Would it mess up my data file/reports/etc.?
> >
> > I dislike this change too, in fact I reverted it in my copy of GnuCash.
> >
> > These dates have always been there in the data, they just weren't
> > displayed or editable before.  They are the date the transaction was
> > entered into the file (although I don't know why you have a entry date
> > that is several years before the posted date for one transaction).
>
> It appears that for a few companies that are automatically charging my
> credit card the date is always the same date somewhere way in the past -
> just useless to me.
>
>
I am running 2.3.9 and I noticed this too. It appears that the scheduled
transactions show up with the date the first SX was created rather than with
the date they were applied due to the current schedule.  I assumed this was
by design, but I found it annoying too.

 Jason