Date problem

[John Ralls]

> On Oct 6, 2016, at 12:56 AM, Keith Stone <pebble at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> 
> I live in New Zealand and we had a daylight-saving change on Sunday 25
> September when we moved clocks forward an hour. Since then I have had
> problems with the date in GnuCash but I cannot find any settings that I can
> change to fix it. I am using Windows 10 Pro and GnuCash 2.6.14. 
> 
> 
> 
> When I open GnuCash the date displayed at the bottom of the screen is for
> the following day e.g. today is Oct 6 but GnuCash shows 07/10/2016. No
> matter what date I type on the screen, when I press "Enter" GnuCash adds a
> day, so if I want to enter a transaction for today (6/10/2016) I have to
> type 5/10/2016 for the date and then when I have finished the transaction
> and press "Enter" it will show it as 06/10/2016.
> 
> 
> 
> I started using GnuCash in 2013 and have not had this problem before, even
> though we have daylight-changes every year. Is there some way I can get
> GnuCash to know what day it is?
> 

This was already reported [1] and fixed for the next release. Your best option is to revert to 2.6.12. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Regards,
John Ralls

[1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=772382