[GNC] unexplained reconciliation dollar amounts

[David Cousens]

Hi John,

I'm runniing GnuCash v3.4 on Linux Mint Tara(19.0 (Ubuntu 18.04)) .

If I enter a transaction from an asset account register and enter the date
as 27/02/2019,  the transaction is recorded as 27/02/20 not 27/02/2019 and
if I select the dropdown calendar selector the year shows in that as 2020.
Only if I enter the date as 27/02/19 does it set the right date. The
Date-Time settings in the preferences is "Locale 31/07/13". I remember this
occurring in v2.6. It has never bugged me enough to report it as a bug, I
just adapted my practice to avoid it. Bug report 797118 raised.

If I change the Date-Time setting to "UK 31/07/2013" then it all seems to
work as expected. I can enter either 27/02/19 or 27/02/2019 and the correct
date is now set so it appears to be a subtlety in the interaction of the
locale date format setting and the parsing of the string typed in.

I can't wrest my wife's Windows machine from her to check the behavior on
Windows at the moment. I'll give it a go later when she is not using it and
add any observations to the bug report.

David





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