[GNC] GnuCash and Swedish accounting legislation

[Fred Bone]

On 11 August 2020 at 20:14, elvis said:

> If you want a fixed date burn a cd or use other ways of verifying the
> files like md5sum
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> All of this fixed date stuff is just security theatre if you can access
> the source and pretty much the same even if you can't.

There seems to be a fair amount of talking at cross purposes.
There are (at least) two reasons for wanting to "lock" against
changing txns before some specified date:
1. To freeze the file for audit/regulatory purposes
2. To prevent accidental unwanted "backdating" of changes
Gnucash's mechanism is well suited to (2) but completely useless for
(1). Conversely, your suggestion is well suited to (1) but completely
useless for (2).
This whole discussion rears its ugly head at (ir-)regular intervals
and perhaps should be in a FAQ document somewhere.