Date error in WinXP vs. Ubuntu

[Andrew S]

Wow! You are correct. One computer was on eastern time, the other on mountain time. Once I switched them both to eastern time, the dates displayed consistently. That fixes my problem, though I have to say it's not exactly intuitive... Many thanks, Andrew

--- On Sun, 5/9/10, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:

From: Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: Date error in WinXP vs. Ubuntu
To: "Andrew S" <akinstur at yahoo.com>
Cc: gnucash-user at gnucash.org, "Elizabeth Dodd" <edodd at billiau.net>
Date: Sunday, May 9, 2010, 4:54 PM

On 9 May 2010 18:08, Andrew S <akinstur at yahoo.com> wrote:
> True: Ubuntu sets the hardware clock to UTC, then translates to local time in the OS, whereas XP sets the hardware clock to local time. But I haven't enountered this problem when moving other files (e.g.,
> OpenOffice Calc files with dates) back and forth between
> Windows and Ubuntu.

I believe it is not a matter of how the OS handles the time but
whether the OS is set to the correct timezone.  Check that the
timezone settings setup on the two machines are the same.

Colin L