Editing transaction timestamp

[Geert Janssens]

On woensdag 17 augustus 2011, Benjamin So wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using 2.2.9 and am wanting to change the order in which transactions
> with the same date appear in the register. This is really a cosmetic
> concern, but I would like certain transactions to be paired together (e.g.
> interest income and the corresponding withholding tax). Occasionally, I
> forget to add the second transaction in the pair and remember only after
> other transactions have been entered for the same date. By default,
> Gnucash appears to use the time of the entry of the transaction to
> calculate the timestamp. Is it possible to manually change either the
> creation time or the timestamp after the entry has been created, so that I
> can re-order my transactions?
> 

You can not easily change the time stamp on transactions, but you can use the 
transaction number field to reorder the transactions on a given date. GnuCash 
orders transactions first on date and then on number.

Maybe that helps.

Geert