gnucash-user Digest, Vol 179, Issue 59

[Elmar]

On 02/15/2018 02:28 PM, gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org wrote:
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> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 13:27:17 -0600
> From: Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at gmail.com>
> To: "gnucash-user at gnucash.org" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
> Subject: Re: trial balance - how to find mismatch question
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> Elmar,
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> Reduce your ending date so the range is half of what it was. Re-run the report. Is it s[t]ill out of balance? Keep doing this till you get a balance, then set that ending date to a new start date, and start working forwards till you get out of balance again. This will help you narrow down where on the calendar the error occurred.
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> Regards,
> Adrien
OK - did that and ran into something VERY strange.  Everything stayed in 
balance up to 07/12/2016.  Setting that as the start date and 12/31/2016 
as the end date, as soon as I hit "apply", QC overwrites the end date 
with - get this - 02/27/1899 !!!  This of course produces nonsense.  One 
day later (01/01/2017) works fine and shows the imbalance.  So, have I 
1) found a bug, and 2) given I have narrowed the date range to a few 
weeks, what report should I run to find the weirdness? - Elmar