Start Day of Weekly Report

[Michael Hendry]

> On 1 Jul 2015, at 18:32, John Morris <johnjeff at editide.us> wrote:
> 
> Thank you, Michael, for running this test. Your results are very interesting. I guess we now need to find that hidden setting.

I think we need to ask someone who knows about GnuCash’s relationship with the OS.

> Can you tell me where you are located? Perhaps more importantly, what location have you selected in the Location and Region pane of the System Preferences?

A screenshot is worth a thousand words:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jvxklxi0sy3pa7t/Screenshot%202015-07-01%2019.39.48.png?dl=0 <https://www.dropbox.com/s/jvxklxi0sy3pa7t/Screenshot%202015-07-01%2019.39.48.png?dl=0>

Michael

> 
> Best,
> John
> 
>> OK. I’ve set up a new user, and changed the System Preferences setting for the start of the week from Monday to Sunday.
>> 
>> I then downloaded GnuCash 2.6.3, installed it, and set up a new account, accepting all the defaults.
>> 
>> I then set up a single transaction from the Checking account, with today’s date, and asked for a Transaction Report on a weekly basis from 1st to 31st July.
>> 
>> This report came up running from Monday to Sunday (starting with Monday 29th June) - which is not what I had expected! If Gnucash is picking up System Preferences, it should have “noticed" that I’d set up Sunday as the first day of the week, and run the weekly report from Sunday 28th.
>> 
>> Knowing nothing about how this is managed internally, I have another little theory which will probably be knocked down - that there are default settings for a new user which are stored even though the user has made changes. Gnucash is looking at the default settings, not the current ones, so picks whatever would have been the default for a given user when that user was created.
>> 
>> I haven’t rebooted since setting up the new user, but I suspect the result will be the same. I’ll report back if the new user’s behaviour changes after the next reboot.
>> 
>> Michael
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