2.6: Changing accounting period does nothing.

[Mike or Penny Novack]

Graham P Davis wrote:

>
>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?
>
There is a fair chance of misunderstanding.

What were you expecting to happen? I am bothered when you say you 
"bypassed" the problem by changing the period within the report you were 
producing. Were you expecting some global date setting to control the 
dates used by some specific running of a report? Almost all gnucash 
reports can be run for specific dates irrespective of the real time and 
date when the report is run (as opposed to for when it is being run).

In other words, what were you trying to do? (as opposed to how you were 
trying to do it).

For example ---- I recently did the 2013 year end reports used to 
prepare our 2013 financial statement for the board meeting Saturday. Now 
the reports were actually run in January after the bank statement could 
be reconciled, interest credited, etc. So at that point in real time 
gnucash has Jan 1, 2014 for the start of the year. Like duh, I use 
options to set the begin date of the report to Jan 1,2013 and the end 
date to Dec 31, 2013 and that is where you do this, not by changing 
global dates.

Michael