Date errors in 2.6.14

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On 15/11/2016 12:40, Securenym wrote:
> I am not at this revision, but this strikes me as a strange change.  Clearly “nearly all” is not the same as “all," and this program is well designed to be useful in the international community.
I think that New Zealand time zones may also be "slightly strange". New 
Zealand Standard time is UTC+12:00, and Chatham (Island) Standard Time 
is GMT+12:45. When DST kicks in in NZ, New Zealand Daylight Time UTC+13, 
and Chatham Daylight Time is UTC+13:45. Both those DST timezones would 
make 11:00UTC "tomorrow" local time.

There may well be other countries with UTC+12 standard time and UTC+13 
for DST. However, Kamchatka Summer Time in Russia (UTC+13) is apparently 
no longer used.

Peter
> Perhaps a better implementation of the change would be to incorporate a user selection in the date/time preference box (I use Mac OS X and FreeBSD), re-install the old code with a modification to permit the user to select when midnight date/posted timestamp is.  In the US many financial institutions select 15:00 lcl as the “next day” for financial transaction posting, while us mortals are happy with midnight lcl.
>
> My thoughts for what they are worth.
>
> Walt
>
>> On Nov 14, 2016, at 6:39 PM, Mark White-Robinson <mark at markwr.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have just updated to 2.6.14 and all of my transaction dates are out by
>> one day (forward) - I understand this may be because of the following
>> change in 2.6.14
>>
>>    - Change the date_posted timestamp from midnight local to 11:00 AM GMT,
>>    which will be the same date in nearly all timezones.
>>
>> I am in NZ and suspect the combination of NZ time zone and above change has
>> caused the date errors (NZ must be one of the timezones where the above
>> does not apply).
>>
>> All reports etc have also been moved one day (e.g. the last day of one
>> month shows up as first of next) - which presents an inaccurate view.
>>
>> Is it possible to fix? or should I downgrade to 2.6.13?
>>
>> Appreciate any help.
>>
>> Mark.
>>
>> p.s. never used these mailing lists before, please excuse me if I wasn't
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