2.6: Changing accounting period does nothing.

[Geert Janssens]

On Wednesday 22 January 2014 15:46:36 Graham P Davis wrote:
> I just changed the accounting period via edit - preferences and using
> absolute dates. I was a bit concerned that the only button available
> on the panel was 'close' and found that I was right to be so as the
> change of dates was not saved.
> 
> I've bypassed the problem by changing the period within the report I
> was producing. Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug? As I only
> have to change this once per year, I don't recall what buttons were
> available on the preferences panel last year.

That's most likely a bug. The dates should be saved the moment you enter them.

Unfortunately I can't reproduce this. On my system (Fedora 19) it does save the 
values.

Which OS are you using and what is your date format ?

Geert