Entry Date versus Transaction Date

[Mike or Penny Novack]

thughes wrote:

>Does GNUCash capture the date a transaction was entered into the file? Is is
>possible to search, or report on this date?
>  
>
Explain what you are trying to do. What use do you plan to make of this 
date? It doesn't have a bookkeeping meaning. While each transaction  has 
an "effective date" (the date of the transaction)  when the transaction 
is actually entered is pretty much irrelevant (as long as prior to the 
date of any report intended to include this transaction is run -- again, 
irrespective of the effective date(s) of that report).

That being said, in my day I did things like designing and writing 
programs that used the entry dates of activity. But those were 
MANAGEMENT reports. For example, how many transactions did each clerical 
worker process in a month, etc. Not part of the bookkeeping itself but 
about the process of keeping the books. Not really the same thing.

Michael