What is the blue line all about?

[Colin Law]

On 1 January 2017 at 08:56, Anita Graves <anitagraves at mac.com> wrote:
> That is exactly what happened.  I realized this when I looked closely at my own transaction and realized it automatically put in 2017 without my knowledge.
>
> This brings up a serious problem for me.  My fiscal (financial) year is not a calendar year.  So, I would be entering transactions as usual up till March or April when my financial year begins.

The line is not to do with the year end, it is to differentiate past
from future. It just happens that on the last day of the year the two
things are the same.

Colin