About time in transaction

[Adrien Monteleone]

Kurt,

While officially there is no way to record times in transactions, you can use the NUM field to some degree for this purpose.

Either you can enter simply increasing digits to order your transactions outside of the order in which they were entered, (1, 2, 3, etc.) or you can use this field as a time stamp.  I’ve switched to this time stamp method when entering many transactions and not sorting my paperwork beforehand. I use 24 hour time without any spaces or delimiters for this. So for your example of an expense to McDonald’s for Food:Breakfast, I’d enter 0800 in the NUM field. If I later stopped at Starbucks because I didn’t care for McDonald’s coffee, I might enter say 0830 in the NUM field for that transaction. This will give me the time and order the transactions by that time as a bonus.

I’m not sure if the “:” delimiter for time is allowed in the NUM field, I don’t need it and haven’t tried it.

I suppose if you didn’t want to use 24 hour time, you could preface the time with “A” or “P” (or their lowercase equivalents) and GC will sort them appropriately. Be sure to put the A or P in front and not at the end or you’ll end up with 800A and 800P right next to each other with say 830A following. Sorting is by character in order left to right.

Hope that helps,

Adrien


> On May 28, 2017, at 12:00 PM, Kurt Tsang <djkurttsang at yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
> 
> I'd like to know is it possible input the time in transactions? It's really important for me to track the history......
> For example "2017-04-01 08:00" paid to McDonal for Food:Breadfast.
> 
> And  is it possible have a web version?
> Thanks a lot
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