File Transfer Problem

[Derek Atkins]

Hi,

On Tue, January 21, 2014 2:42 pm, Gregory Forster wrote:
> Hi,
>
>      I use a desktop: Win 7 Pro 64, 4G RAM where I have and use GnuCash
> and am thoroughly satisfied with.  August 2010, I bought a Toshiba
> laptop: Win 7 Home Premium 64 where I installed GnuCash also.  I then
> used the data files back and forth between the laptop and desktop for
> over three years with no problems, until now.  The desktop is my main
> computer where all transactions, calculations and reporting is done.
> Three weeks ago, when transfering the data files to the laptop (via USB
> flash drive as I have done for over 3 years),  the dates were moved one
> day behind on the transferred file within the laptop. For the past 3
> weeks I did considerable testing. I  deleted Gnucash from the laptop, as
> well  as the registry entries and C:\users\name\.gconf, .gconfd,
> .gnome2, gnome2_private, .gnucash files. I fed in the USB data files
> into the desktop and the dates were all correct, so the problem is not
> the USB flash drive or the transferred file.  Both computers are running
> the same version of GnuCash - 2.4.13.  I reinstalled GnuCash and still
> the problem persists.
>    The dates are changed for all transactions of all accounts going all
> the way back to inception.  Is there some setting changed on the
> laptop?  What happened?  Can I no longer use my laptop as a backup
> computer?

This behavior would be consistent with your systems being in different
timezones.  For example if one of them is in DST and the other is not.. Or
one is "local" and the other is UTC.  Are your systems configured in
different timezones?

> Greg

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-derek

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