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

Fred Bone Fred.Bone at dial.pipex.com
Mon Jul 13 18:19:48 EDT 2015


On 13 July 2015 at 21:12, Detlef Kattenstroth said:

> Hello all, and sorry for my delays in replying,
> but the energy crisis here in Ghana takes its toll on online time.
> 
> I moved my regular file to a different place, installed gnucash 2.6.7 and
> then created a new empty book from scratch. The result is what can be seen
> in the attached screenshot. The date is from the distant future in 2060

Another data point.

The previous screenshot showed a system date (taskbar, bottom right) 
Tuesday 2015-07-07 and a GnuCash date (bottom left of Gnucash window) 
Monday 2060-11-22. This one shows a system date Monday 2015-07-13 and a 
GnuCash date Monday 2060-11-29.

Clearly the date offset is not a whole number of days. This may possibly 
help isolate the source of the problem.

> When I try to open the files, the old one as well as the new one, with an
> editor there is no clear text to read!

The file is probably the default gzipped XML. You can
(a) set GnuCash to save the file uncompressed (Edit->Preferences; 
remember to change the setting back afterwards!), or
(b) use a gzip-capable utility to extract the data (I use 7-zip, 
www.7-zip.org), and then you preferred text editor, or
(c) use an editor that understands gzip format (I use jEdit, 
www.jedit.org).



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