trouble with date when importing a just exported csv file.

[David Carlson]

On 1/27/2015 6:34 PM, Edward Doolittle wrote:
> In North America SEC and OSC have a "T+3" rule for settling trades, which gives the buyer of securities three days to deposit any cash required for a purchase. While not exactly "buying on credit", it means that one does not in general need the cash in the brokerage account in order to buy securities, even in a cash/non-margin account.
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Edward,
Thanks for the information.  I knew that there were rules but I didn't
know what they were.  My broker doesn't stick his neck out on that, even
if I have the funds in another account that he is managing.  He would
transfer the funds into the desired account first before issuing a trade
order. 

I think that Larry was just using fictional transactions, but they may
need to more closely match the way things really happen to work
correctly in GnuCash. I know that reports would not give correct results. 

I was hoping that someone that understands and/or uses CSV imports
enough to explain the date format issue and more would help.  I also
have no idea whether GnuCash can import it's own exports, as that is not
a normal use case either.

David C