Urgent:Issue with dates

Joshua Owusu-Ansah oa.joshua at gmail.com
Tue Aug 2 18:25:43 EDT 2016


I restarted my computer after I deleted the scheduled transactions that run.
That's when I noticed that the dates are now plus two months. I have
checked system date and its fine.

Now it sees today as 12/20/2061.

How do I troubleshoot and resolve this, please
On Aug 3, 2016 12:07 AM, "John Ralls" <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

>
> > On Aug 2, 2016, at 12:32 PM, Joshua Owusu-Ansah <oa.joshua at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks John, for replying.
> > My gnuhpcash was always quitting at the startup stage when loading user
> information, so I upgraded to 2.6.13.  And it worked for a while(but only
> when I run as administrator), then today this issue started.
> >
> > 1. I had scheduled transaction which all run severally and the dates on
> them are now 2064 for year. When I saw this this morning, I disabled all
> scheduled transactions and then restarted. Then I noticed all months are
> now plus two months for posted transactions. So eg. A transaction that
> occurred today 08/02/2016 in now recorded as 10/02/2016 and trying to enter
> new expense shows date as 2064 for year.
> >
> > 2. I am in Ghana and my windows 10 machine is set to use UTC. Today is
> Tue, Aug 2, 2016.
> >
> > 3. I am not sure about daylight/summer time.
> >
> > 4. I entered transactions this morning and the date was correct. Then I
> quit and came back a bit later to try to get some customer information.
> That is when the scheduled transactions run unexpectedly, I deleted the
> resulting transactions and disabled scheduled transactions. Then I noticed
> invoice dates are now plus two months ...
> >
> > 5. I should be able to read XML.
> >
> > Please how can you help me out of this and why I'm I having so many
> issues with gnucash lately?
>
> Ghana doesn't have daylight time, so we can rule that out. Since you've
> been using 2.6.13 for "a while" without this issue we can assume that it's
> not related to any change in the GnuCash code itself.
>
> Did you restart the computer or just GnuCash? Had you just started Windows
> this morning when you started GnuCash and the since-last-run went nuts? Did
> since-last-run create the 48 years worth of transactions that one would
> expect if it really thinks that it's 2064?
> Have you checked the system clock (right end of the task bar) to make sure
> that it's showing the correct date and time?
>
> While we're sorting this out it would be wise to backup the folder where
> you keep your account files and backups to be sure that you can roll back
> to yesterday's file if necessary.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: IMG_20160802_222421.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 580809 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/attachments/20160802/aa507a7d/attachment-0001.jpg>


More information about the gnucash-user mailing list