chron job with GC

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Thu Nov 3 15:40:44 EDT 2011


John Rakestraw <lists at johnrakestraw.com> writes:

> Hi, Paul --
>
> On Thu, 03 Nov 2011, Paul Schwartz wrote:
>> Sounds interesting. I downloaded the 2.6 version of ledger from the
>> Ubuntu repository. Tried it on one of my 2.2.x files and got only
>> invalid date messages for 7 lines. Any hints on what to do?
>
> I guess I would find out what date format ledger is expecting (ledger's
> default for its own purposes is YYYY/MM/DD) and compare that to the date
> format in the gnucash xml. Sorry to say I'm not much help on the reading
> gnucash file side of things -- perhaps others can comment on that. I first
> used ledger to generate reports out of my gnucash data file (it did that
> successfully, perhaps 18 months ago) but perhaps things have changed in
> the meantime. (I've now left Gnucash behind and keep my finances in ledger
> format in a plain text file.)

The XML is in ISO Date format, the XML standard.

-derek
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