Guncash issue on Windows 7

[John Ralls]

On Oct 12, 2013, at 9:47 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

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> On Oct 12, 2013, at 8:55 AM, Hans Otto Kroeger <hokroeger at yahoo.com> wrote:
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>> It is not the portable version who get it right; it goes right in the Linux Mint version, and too in the version on XP.  And yes, the date 6 Oktober is here the beginning of the summer time.
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> Ah, sorry. Another clue, then: This is related to the changes in date handling between XP and Win7 -- or actually Win Vista, because one of the folks who contributed to Bug 598788 was using that.
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> Hmm. We're still using glib-2.28 for our Windows builds, even for 2.5. Time to update that to pick up the extensive Win timezone changes in 2.36. That may well resolve the problem.
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I'm able to replicate the problem on GC2.4.13 by simply changing the timezone to Asunción. It doesn't replicate on 2.5.6, probably because of the gncdate rewrite from last December.

Regards,
John Ralls