[GNC] No longer able to reconcile register accounts

[John Ralls]

> On Oct 28, 2018, at 4:45 PM, Richard Ullger <rullger at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> As of today I am unable to reconcile any register account.
> Reconciliation was working yesterday.
> 
> When I click on the reconcile button the reconcile information window
> opens with the statement date populated with 01/10/18 (1st October) and
> the ending balance equal to the last balance in the register.
> 
> If I click in the date field and press 't' for today's date, the date
> remains as 01/10/18 and the ending balance changes to the balance as at
> 01/10/18.
> 
> If I attempt to manually change the date and tab out of the field, it
> immediately reverts to 01/10/18.
> 
> When I initially click on the reconcile button to initiate
> reconciliation, the gnucash.trace file gets populated with the text:
> 
> * 23:15:35  CRIT <gnc.gui> gnc_date_edit_set_time_internal: assertion
> 'mytm != NULL' failed
> 
> The only thing I can think of that has changed is daylight savings time
> where the hour went back from BST to GMT in the UK.
> 
> I was running version 3.3.r0.g65c8357f5 and just built
> 3.3.r48.gdddc27885 where I am experiencing the same issue.
> 
> Is this a known problem?

Sigh. No, and I thought that I’d fixed all of the timezone and DST issues. I’ll be interested to know if the problem goes away when you try again on Monday.

Regards,
John Ralls