Changed Entry Dates after updating from 2.6.4-2 to 2.6.6 and/or 2.6.7

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Mon Jul 6 10:09:47 EDT 2015


> On Jul 5, 2015, at 9:54 PM, nvsoar <nvsoar at charter.net> wrote:
> 
> On 7/5/2015 4:41 PM, John Ralls wrote:
>>> On Jul 5, 2015, at 1:49 PM, Detlef Kattenstroth <detlef.kattenstroth at web.de> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I am using Gnucash version 2.6.4-2 on Windows 8.1
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Everything works fine and proper here, but then I updated to
>>> 2.6.6 and
>>> 
>>> all of a sudden all the dates of my entries changed with the
>>> most recent
>>> 
>>> ones set to NOVEMBER 2060, so I reverted back to 2.6.4-2 and
>>> all was back well.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> After 2.6.7 came out I updated to it and got exactly the
>>> very same result. All my
>>> 
>>> entry dates were changed with the most recent set to
>>> NOVEMBER 2060. So I
>>> 
>>> reverted back to 2.6.4-2
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> What could be the problem of this?
>>> 
>>> Thanks for any help in advance
>> That’s pretty strange. I take it these are the posted dates in the account registers? What backend are you using?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
> FWIW - I ran into trouble when I attempted to use a non-standard date format ( the unambiguous ddmmmyyyy, eg 05Jul2015) rather than the default date format.  Reverted to the default format, no more date problem.

Could you be more specific about that, please? Where did you set the date format and where were you seeing the incorrectly parsed dates?

Regards,
John Ralls





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