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 15:11:48 EDT 2015


> On Jul 6, 2015, at 12:00 PM, nvsoar <nvsoar at charter.net> wrote:
> 
> On 7/6/2015 7:09 AM, John Ralls wrote:
>>> 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
>> 
> If the "you" is nvsoar, then the answer to the questions are that I didn't set 'ddmmmyyyy' as a format; just entered the date in the register entries in that fashion.  This was several versions back and I am now unable to recollect the problem that I was unable to fix other than by using the default date format for my locale -(USA).

Yes, nvsoar, I was replying to your message. So in your case you tried to enter the dates in a way that GnuCash doesn’t understand and they immediately were misunderstood. I think that’s rather different from what Detlef is reporting, but we’re still waiting for him to clarify.

Regards,
John Ralls





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