Transactions with split dates

[Jonathan Ellis]

Is it possible to enter a transaction with different dates for the two
halves of the split?

The reason I ask is that when a transfer happens between two of my bank
accounts (for example from my current account to my credit card or from
Paypal to either my current account or credit card) there is a time lag
(usually a few days) between the credit or debit being sent from one bank
and being received by the other bank. This means that the same transaction
would have different dates in the two accounts.

When I download the statements, I have to choose whether to keep the date
from one statement or the other. Sometimes, Gnucash might not even recognise
the transaction as being the same one so I end up with duplicate
transactions with different dates.

This makes it very hard to reconcile the accounts as the date will be wrong
and so the reconciled balance will be wrong in one of the accounts or there
will be duplicate transactions.