[GNC] unexplained reconciliation dollar amounts

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.fremont.ca.us
Tue Feb 26 10:53:00 EST 2019



> On Feb 25, 2019, at 7:11 PM, David Cousens <davidcousens at bigpond.com> wrote:
> If the previously reconciled balances are off, then somehow you have created
> transactions either before or in the period that was previously reconciled. 
> This can happen sometimes when you enter a date incorrectly, e.g entering a
> 4 digit year as GnuCash only recognises a 2 digit year in the register
> entry.

David,

I'm on travel this week and can't check on Windows, but GnuCash should both accept and display 4-digit years in the Register. It does on MacOS. If it's doing otherwise on Windows that's a pretty serious bug.

GnuCash 2.6 accepted dates from year 1 (that's proleptic Gregorian, actual European accounts from then would have called it 755 AUC) to 9999 but GnuCash 3.x can handle only dates after 1 January 1400. A common problem for people migrating is having mistakenly entered a 3-digit date (e.g. 219 for 2019) in 2.6 and having GnuCash 3 fail to load their database because the date is out of range. That was fixed in 3.2; GnuCash changes the year to 1970.

Regards,
John Ralls



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