[GNC] Requesting a trial balance as of a specified date

[Stan Brown]

On 2021-01-23 18:05, Michael or Penny Novack wrote:
> Not specific to gnucash. Whenever you see an unexpected date of
> 12/31/1969 be aware that the most likely reason is "no date/time
> specified". That's because 12/31/1969 is time = 0 for computers.

For _some_ computers.

The technical term for the date and time equivalent to 0 in a particular
operating system or programming language is "the epoch," and there are
many of them. Here are two lengthy but incomplete lists:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_time
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoch_(computing)

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