Quote date in gnucash different from retrieved by gnc-fq-dump

[John Ralls]

> On Jul 29, 2015, at 4:43 AM, Lt. Goose <ltgoose at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm getting unexpected results when updating quotes in gnucash 2.6.7
> (updated yesterday). I've written my own quote source and integrated it
> into Finance::Quote (1.37). It is recognized by gnucash so that I can
> select it from within the program and use it to retrieve quotes.
> 
> However, the date returned in the quote (2015-07-29 12:00:00, as can be
> seen in debug trace messages [1]) is different from the one returned by
> Finance::Quote (2015-07-28, see gnc-fq-dump output in [2]). Detailed output
> of gnc-fq-dump can be seen in [3].
> 
> Am I missing something or does gnucash use execution date to insert the
> quote value? Should date string be formatted some other way? (I mimicked
> yahoo quote return values).  Is this the way it should work?
> 
> I'd appreciate any insights on this matter.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> Gus.
> 
> -------
> 
> [1] gnucash.trace.log output
> * 13:27:16 DEBUG <gnc.scm> handling-request: (bolsamadrid ECR.BME REE.BME)
> * 13:27:19 DEBUG <gnc.scm> results: ((ECR.BME (symbol . ECR.BME)
> (gnc:time-no-zone . 2015-07-29 12:00:00) (last . 0.73) (currency . EUR))
> (REE.BME (symbol . REE.BME) (gnc:time-no-zone . 2015-07-29 12:00:00) (last
> . 72.48) (currency . EUR)))
> 
> 
> [2] gnc-fq-dump output
> C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin>perl gnc-fq-dump bolsamadrid REE.BME
> ECR.BME
> Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
>    symbol: REE.BME              <=== required
>      date: 28/07/2015           <=== required
>  currency: EUR                  <=== required
>      last: 72.4800              <=\
>       nav:                      <=== one of these
>     price: 72.4800              <=/
>  timezone:                      <=== optional
> =====
> 
> Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
>    symbol: ECR.BME              <=== required
>      date: 28/07/2015           <=== required
>  currency: EUR                  <=== required
>      last: 0.7300               <=\
>       nav:                      <=== one of these
>     price: 0.7300               <=/
>  timezone:                      <=== optional
> 
> 
> [3] gnc-fq-dump verbose output
> C:\Program Files (x86)\gnucash\bin>perl gnc-fq-dump -v bolsamadrid REE.BME
> ECR.BME
> Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
>    symbol: REE.BME              <=== required
>      date: 28/07/2015           <=== required
>  currency: EUR                  <=== required
>      last: 72.4800              <=\
>       nav:                      <=== one of these
>     price: 72.4800              <=/
>  timezone:                      <=== optional
> 
> All fields returned by Finance::Quote for stock REE.BME
> 
> stock           field  value
> -----           -----  -----
> REE.BME      currency: EUR
> REE.BME          date: 28/07/2015
> REE.BME     day_range: 72.0400 - 72.6600
> REE.BME          high: 72.6600
> REE.BME       isodate: 2015/07/28
> REE.BME          last: 72.4800
> REE.BME           low: 72.0400
> REE.BME        method: bolsamadrid
> REE.BME          name: REE.BME
> REE.BME      p_change: 0.42
> REE.BME         price: 72.4800
> REE.BME        source: Finance::Quote::Bolsamadrid
> REE.BME       success: 1
> REE.BME        symbol: REE.BME
> 
> =====
> 
> Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
>    symbol: ECR.BME              <=== required
>      date: 28/07/2015           <=== required
>  currency: EUR                  <=== required
>      last: 0.7300               <=\
>       nav:                      <=== one of these
>     price: 0.7300               <=/
>  timezone:                      <=== optional
> 
> All fields returned by Finance::Quote for stock ECR.BME
> 
> stock           field  value
> -----           -----  -----
> ECR.BME      currency: EUR
> ECR.BME          date: 28/07/2015
> ECR.BME     day_range: 0.6550 - 0.7450
> ECR.BME          high: 0.7450
> ECR.BME       isodate: 2015/07/28
> ECR.BME          last: 0.7300
> ECR.BME           low: 0.6550
> ECR.BME        method: bolsamadrid
> ECR.BME          name: ECR.BME
> ECR.BME      p_change: 9.45
> ECR.BME         price: 0.7300
> ECR.BME        source: Finance::Quote::Bolsamadrid
> ECR.BME       success: 1
> ECR.BME        symbol: ECR.BME

By “updated yesterday” do you mean you built yesterday’s maint? That’s significant because I pushed a change on Monday to use a more modern interface for Date::Manip, and it looks like it’s not parsing the d-m-y format correctly.

Regards,
John Ralls