[GNC] Scheduled transactions feature or bug?

[Dale Alspach]

Unless one lives in a science fiction world with time travel available one
does not normally *schedule* something to occur in the past.
:)
If this is kept as a feature then perhaps the name should be changed to
"automatic transaction creation tool".
Dale

On Tue, Apr 12, 2022 at 11:32 AM Michael or Penny Novack <
stepbystepfarm at comcast.net> wrote:

> On 4/12/2022 10:55 AM, Dale Alspach wrote:
> > I had a scheduled transfer to savings that I disabled for a few months.
> > When I re-enabled the scheduled transfer I did not change the start
> date. I
> > was very surprised to find that when it ran that it entered transactions
> > for all of the months when it was disabled.
> > Automatically altering the past seems extremely dangerous. It  seems to
> me
> > a warning should be given or scheduled transactions should only insert
> > future transactions.
> > Dale
>
> Computers are like that. They obediently do what you tell them to, not
> what you meant to tell them to do.
>
> I suspect you expected some different behavior. That you expected it to
> "remember" that you had disabled the scheduled transfers AT SOME POINT
> IN TIME and you expected that to be "remembered" when you re-enabled the
> transfers. In other words, you expected the disable to have dates
> associated with it << disable from date X to date Y >>
>
> Look at your options when scheduling transactions to see what you should
> have done to get the behavior "scheduled between date X and date Y and
> then from date Z into the future -- hint: that is TWO "schedules"
>
> About "changing the past" -- aren't MOST of the transactions you enter
> after the fact (at a point in time after the transaction has taken place)
>
> Michael D Novack
>
>
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