Reconciled Account Using Wrong Date

[Liz]

On Sun, 25 Aug 2013 16:50:28 -0400
jcard Anyname <jcard21 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've used gnuCash since April, 2009. I now using Windows 8 and gnuCash
> 2.4.11 (from Help>About - This copy was built from svn r22268 on
> 2012-07-15.)
> 
> I successfully (diff=$0.00) reconciled my Checking Account using
> 2013-08-24 instead of 2013-08-23. Apparently, I had no 2013-08-24 txns
> which would throw the reconcile off.
> 
> But, afterwards, I also made a whole bunch of txn additions and some
> modifications... too numerous to try to recreate.
> 
> I didn't notice the incorrect reconcile-date until I was all done with
> my session, when I generated a new Transaction Report (it lists the
> reconcile-dates for each txn/split).
> 
> QUESTION:
> 
> 1) Is there a simple way to correct an Checking Acccount
> reconcile-date and the individual txns'/splits' reconcile-dates,
> without editing the xml file?
> 
> I tried editing (made a copy of my xml file, changed all
> "reconcile-dates" from 2013-08-24 to 2013-08-23, opened the
> copied/modded file in gnuCash ... the Account Window tab/list still
> showed my Checking Account Reconcile-Date as 2013-08-24 (stored
> outside my xml file?).
> 
> I didn't bother reloading my Transaction Report because it no longer
> was open in a separate tabs, and I didn't feel like creating it from
> scratch again.
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions you may have.
> 

Could you explain why there is a problem with the reconcile date being
one day out?
When you look at your accounts in 2 months time, will it make any
difference?