[GNC] Feature request - prevent a transaction with todays date

[Steve Butler]

If I paid today and enter the transaction today it should have today's date
on it.

Especially if paid with cash.  If I wrote a check I must be ready for them
to go immediately to the bank and cash it

On Tue, Dec 27, 2022, 10:52 Michael or Penny Novack <
stepbystepfarm at comcast.net> wrote:

>
>
> > If you create a bill, then entering multiple items then defaults to the
> > original date. However, once posted, the next thing to do is pay it. The
> > payment date defaults to the current date.
>
> Just pointing out again, but accounting (and gnucash) not a "real tine"
> activity. The CORRECT date to use for entering payment of a bill is when
> you made legal payment of it. Not when you got around to entering the
> transaction. The "current date" (date at the time you entered the
> transaction isn't relevant to anything, or should not be.
>
> If this seems to be persnickety, image that there are discounts for on
> time payments or late fees for late payments.
>
>
> Michael D Novack
>
>
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