GnuCash Start Date

[Mike or Penny Novack]

Jim Tippett wrote:

>Dear Sir/Madam,
>
>I have recently installed Ubuntu 14.04 and GnuCash 2.6.1.   I am unable to
>set an absolute start date (under edit/preferences/accounting period).
>Keeps defaulting to 01/01/70,  No problems setting absolute end date.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Jim Tippett
>  
>
Just a note for folks, not just with gnucash. Whenever (instead of the 
date you expect to see) you see either 12/31/69 or the next day 01/01/70 
suspect that some date field is not being initialized. That's the "zero 
date" for computer time.

Michael