Wrong date when importing OFX file from HSBC

[John Ralls]

> On Feb 1, 2015, at 1:06 PM, Diarmaid Lee <djlee97 at btinternet.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am hoping you can help me. I am in the UK, using Gnucash 2.6.1 on Linux Mint 17.1 Xfce 64-bit. I am new to Linux and Gnucash, previously I have been using ms money on Vista.
> 
> I can navigate my way around a computer, but not very proficiently.
> 
> I have managed to import all my files from ms money successfully. I used QIF files, only because this file was first on the gnucash import list.
> 
> I then realised that using OFX would be more familiar to me. I know now that OFX is what I'd been using to import bank transactions to money. (My bank is HSBC).
> 
> My problem is that all the transaction dates are a day late. eg. all dates that are 19th on the bank web site, come up as 20th in gnucash. Very confusing!
> 
> I'm hoping it is just a setting somewhere that I am not aware of. I have looked online but I can find nothing that I can understand to fix this problem for me.
> 
> Hope this makes sense.

The only reason for that that comes to mind is that there is a timezone difference between the imported transactions and your present location. Could you paste in a single transaction from one of the QIF files that you imported?

Regards,
John Ralls