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[John Ralls]

> On Aug 2, 2017, at 2:10 AM, AC <gnucash at acarver.net> wrote:
> 
> On 2017-08-01 08:30, John Ralls wrote:
> 
>> The date range is selected on the general tab of report options. You'll find a convenient button in the report toolbar for opening that dialog.
>> 
>> 1899 is a weird value. Have you set an accounting period?
>> 
>> 
> Windows uses 1/1/1900 as the first second of its epoch rather than the
> Unix epoch of 1/1/1970.  The year 1899 will sometimes show up if you
> feed Windows a zero for epoch seconds (depending on the program it might
> also display as January 0, 1900 instead of December 31, 1899, Excel does
> this)

Hmm. That's interesting. We don't use the Windows date library at all, so I don't understand how that could be leaking in to GnuCash, but it's a better explanation than anything else I can think of.

Christine, what is the *exact* date on the report?

Regards,
John Ralls