Year 1899

[Kurt Guenther]

Geert,   I like it.   Thanks.


On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 4:07 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
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> On Monday 21 September 2015 16:56:21 David Carlson wrote:
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> > On 9/21/2015 4:12 PM, kurtg1234 wrote:
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> > > I'm surprised, but that did fix my problem. It's nice to have the
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> > > slashes back too. Thanks.
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> > > It's a bug, but Win7 is becoming an archaic OS.
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> > I think that it is probably a GnuCash bug that might also appear in
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> > Win 10, but I cannot check that. I do not recall whether I filed a
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> > bug report back then.
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> > David C
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> The issue here is that GnuCash can't handle short dates which have
> weekdays in them. There is a bug [1] still open for this.
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> The only workaround currently is to avoid such date format in GnuCash. If
> you only want to avoid it in GnuCash without changing your preferred system
> locale, you can explicitly choose a date format for GnuCash via
> Edit->Preferences->Date & Time.
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> Regards,
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> Geert
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> [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=497831
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