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

Les lelliott5 at gmail.com
Sun Feb 18 04:47:20 EST 2018


I had mine set for "local time", so I changed it to Australia/Sydney 
time.  I will check results on Monday.

Thanks John.

Les


On 02/17/2018 10:03 PM, John Ralls wrote:
> And by “operating system’s time zone is correct” he means “in Australia” (or Asia somewhere), because if you’re in America then the closing price really is from the 15th.
>
> Regards,
> John Ralls
>
>> On Feb 17, 2018, at 7:32 PM, Ronal B Morse <ron at morsehouse.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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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