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

[Wm]

Fri, 10 Jul 2015 23:04:58 
<55A0418A.21048.151BE47 at Fred.Bone.dial.pipex.com>  Fred Bone 
<Fred.Bone at dial.pipex.com>

>On 10 July 2015 at 2:48, Wm said:
>
>> Tue, 7 Jul 2015 08:07:59 <000c01d0b88c$0c59d350$250d79f0$@web.de> Detlef
>> Kattenstroth <detlef.kattenstroth at web.de>
>>
>> >please no, nothing is changing when I change the date settings in
>> >preferences.
>>
>> More details, please
>>
>> Notes for others:
>>
>> detlef is using a single file format on Win8.1 so it is
>>   either
>>     XML (which could be compressed) or
>>     SQLite3
>> Neither produce the same time jump generally so we need to look for
>> something specific.
>
>[...]
>> I think this is going to be in the file rather than in the exe.
>>
>> ===
>>
>> Someone needs to pin down Detlef's file format.
>
>I don't believe the file format will have anything to do with it.

Perhaps not, but we need to know if we are going to help.  Saying "Open 
it with an editor" is no use if it is compressed XML or SQLite3

>The
>"today's date" which appears in the footer area of the window and in the
>blank transaction is not derived from any file.

Today's date (bottom RHS) is similar in the two screenshots.

Last modified (bottom LHS) differs wildly.

In an XML file dates exist as bits of text, the file modification time 
is (I am almost certain) irrelevant.  Therefore if the same file (the 
screenshots suggest the same file) was opened in both gnc versions it is 
very hard to see how the two gnc versions could interpret dates but not 
money amounts so differently.

With a non-XML backend other possibilities exist.  It is something to 
get out of the way rather than a solution.

Triage.

Detlef:

if you do a directory or folder listing what are the dates for your 
file?

if you open a *copy* of your file in an editor like Notepad is it stuff 
you can read?

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Wm...