File Transfer Problem

[Gregory Forster]

Hi Derek,

     I feel so stupid!   Dunh, check the laptop.  Er, yup, it was the 
wrong time zone.  Now, everything works great!  Thanks again, Derek.

Greg

On 1/21/2014 1:55 PM, Derek Atkins wrote:
> 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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