Completely unusable date input in RHEL 6

[Geert Janssens]

On Saturday 01 February 2014 14:04:05 Matěj Cepl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> we have gnucash 2.4.15 in EPEL 6 (EPEL is community supported set of
> packages for RHEL 6), but when I have suggested it to my wife, it was
> complete flop. She just cannot for anything in the world enter any
> date in the ledger. I have found
> http://www.gnucash.org/docs/v2.4/C/gnucash-guide/txns-shortcuts1.html
> for her, but it doesn't work. She has cs_CZ locale, and whatever she
> does all her dates end in some weird date in the late nineteenth
> century. Even when she just presses T to get today (that's 1.2.2014
> now), it converts to 29.11.1898 when I press TAB to get from the Date
> column. The similar weird date in 1898 happen when I press [ { or any
> other date-moving key shortcut. When I run gnucash like
> 
> $ LANG=en_IE.utf8 gnucash
> 
> I get everything working correctly. I guess we have in RHEL-6 some
> library in an obsolete version. Could anybody suggest which library it
> is and how to get gnucash working even with cs_CZ.utf8 locale?
> 
> Best,
> 
> Matěj Cepl

Hi Matěj,

This is not some obsolete library thing. You are affected by this bug:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=497831

There is no solution for this bug yet. The way you can work around this 
is to choose a date format other than Locale in Preferences/Date. You 
can set it to "Europe" for example which is close to the date format 
that is the default for cs_CZ.

Regards,

Geert