Transaction Entry Dates

[David Carlson]

On 7/20/2014 5:30 AM, John Ralls wrote:
> It has been a long-standing and often discussed problem that transaction entry dates can change with time zone, and https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137017 has many useful comments on the subject. But today I discovered https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89439 with an alternative view, that Date Entered should be Time Entered, and that there should be an optional column in the register to show the time. That suggests an alternative solution to the problem while adding a sorting option for transactions.
>
> I've created two "suggestions" on UserVoice. Please vote for the one you prefer:
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> https://gnucash.uservoice.com/forums/101223-feature-request/suggestions/6194177-add-an-optional-entry-time-field-to-the
> https://gnucash.uservoice.com/forums/101223-feature-request/suggestions/6194125-fix-the-moving-entry-date-problem-by-getting-rid-o
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> Regards,
> John Ralls
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My bank posts the minute and second (Local time) when I use a computer
to transfer funds between accounts, but I think that it is only an aid
to uniquely identify transactions if there happens to be similar ones in
the same account. That, in itself, is a valid reason to keep the time in
the transaction record, but I think that it might be better in GnuCash
to also add the time zone of the user who made the entry to the
transaction (including Daylight time when applicable). Then the date
could be shown as local date (of the user that posted the transaction)
to solve the date display issue.