New Transaction field in the register

[Thomas Troesch]

I agree that if this is the timestamp for a transaction, it should never be
editable by the UI.  I backed this change out and the odd  1969-12-31 date
on blank transactions has gone away.

This change doesn't even address the original issues from the old mailing
list.  This change makes no sense to me.

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Jeff Kletsky <gnucash at allycomm.com> wrote:

> While I understand the desire of the original patch, I am concerned about
> willy-nilly UI-based editing of anything in data structures. systems with
> accountability for actions taken generally have a "when entered" and "by
> who" field, that are immutable from the UI. Given that the IRS here in the
> US required that the evidence of expense be made in a timely fashion
> relative to the event,
>
>  ==> The field that contains the update timestamp should, in my opinion,
> *never* be editable in the UI.
>
> If there is a compelling reason to have this blend of cash and accrual
> accounting in a single transaction, then a /new/ field should be introduced.
>
> (As I understand the original desire, it was to have a "spent on" and
> "cleared on" date for each transaction -- in more conventional accounting
> practice, the "spent on" would be reflected in an A/P posting and the
> "cleared on" date would be reflected in a payment against the A/P account.)
>
> On 2/10/10 7:43 PM, Mike Alexander wrote:
>
>> [...]
>>
>> 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).  You can't get
>> rid of them in the file, but an option to not display them, or perhaps a
>> better way to display them so they don't get mixed up with the posted dates,
>> would be nice.
>>
>
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