Absolute end date ineffective

[David T.]

This is a known problem that has been fixed in more recent versions of Gnucash. See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=545722

David

--- On Sun, 1/3/10, Ken Heard <ken at heard.name> wrote:

> From: Ken Heard <ken at heard.name>
> Subject: Absolute end date ineffective
> To: "gnucash-user" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Date: Sunday, January 3, 2010, 5:58 PM
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> In trying to set the date in the "absolute end date" option
> in
> Preferences>Accounting period, I find that I cannot do
> so by typing in
> the space provided the date I want.  If I try to set
> the date that way,
> when I close the window the date reverts to the current
> date.  So I
> always have to use the calendar to choose the date. 
> This situation
> occurs in many -- but not all -- places where the user has
> the option to
> choose a date.
> 
> More important, even when I am successful in choosing an
> end date other
> than the current date, other routines ignore the end date I
> chose.  For
> example, if I want to compile an account report for a given
> account I
> find that the routine will accept the start date I selected
> but not the
> end date.  The end date is always the current date.
> 
> I am using the 2.2.6 version of GnuCash shipped with Debian
> Lenny.
> 
> Ken Heard
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