Online quotes fetching latest stock price but incorrect date; currency exchange rate also not working

Ronal B Morse ron at morsehouse.com
Sat Feb 17 22:32:55 EST 2018


I guess the first step is to verify that the system time and date is 
correct and the operating system's time zone setting is correct.

RBM



On 02/17/2018 07:10 PM, Justin Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Gnucash is not updating stock quotes correctly for me. The stock price is
> correct but an incorrect date is used.
>
> This is confirmed when testing using gnc-fq-dump. E.g.
>
> ALPHAVANTAGE_API_KEY=<mykey> gnc-fq-dump alphavantage NAB.AX
> Finance::Quote fields Gnucash uses:
>      symbol: NAB.AX               <=== required
>        date: 02/15/2018           <=== recommended
>    currency: AUD                  <=== required
>        last: 29.2200              <=\
>         nav:                      <=== one of these
>       price:                      <=/
>    timezone:                      <=== optional
>
> Today's date is Feb 18. The price is actually the closing price for last
> Fri 16 Feb.
>
> Gnucash then overwrites the historical price for Feb 15, with the price for
> Feb 16.
>
> This happens for all my ASX stocks.
>
> At the same time, Gnucash is also consistently returning the error "Unable
> to retrieve quotes for these items: CURRENCY:USD". This sounds unrelated if
> it wasn't for the fact that it started happening at the same time as the
> above date issue...
>
> I am running GnuCash 2.6.17 on Ubuntu 17.04 Zesty (PPA). And Finance::Quote
> 1.48 (installed from git).
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Justin.
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