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

[R Losey]

Two items: I understand what you wrote about legally tendering something,
but I was thinking of mailing bills... I may write them on Monday, and drop
them into the mail, but until the mail is received by the creditor, it
isn't paid. But yes, I have looked at US IRS regulations, and (for
example), a charitable contribution is considered made on the date you give
it, not when the organization caches it.

When I enter past transactions, the initial date is 'today', but every
subsequent entry defaults to the date I last used (until I restart GnuCash)


On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 3:16 PM Adrien Monteleone <
adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:

> On 12/28/22 10:07 AM, R Losey wrote:
> > While that is technically true, I enter credit card charges on the day I
> > use the card, not when it clears... ditto for writing checks, and I
> suspect
> > most people do it that way.
> Those generally *are* the days payment is legally made. When you hand
> over a check, that is an act of 'tendering'. The fact that the banking
> system doesn't clear it immediately or even that the recipient doesn't
> present it for payment immediately does not matter to your books. (save
> to later reconcile cleared items) And to be pedantic, the date on the
> check is the actual tendering date, if later than the current calendar
> date. (hence the term 'post dated check')
>
> With respect the Cards, the situation is similar but with usually
> shorter lag times. Merchants usually submit pending charges in batches
> at close of day or at a set time. The money appears in their account
> next day or maybe 72hours later. Your account with the Card issuer is
> affected immediately.
>
> But Michael is referring to the possible situation where you don't enter
> transactions on those same days, instead, you may enter them a week or
> even months later. The day you make the entry is not relevant. The day
> the transaction occurred, is.
>
> The OP's issue is with GnuCash reverting to 'today' as a default when
> entering batches of historical transactions as being cumbersome.
>
> As I and others have noted, we don't observe that behavior, so it is
> possibly a work-flow issue.
>
> Regards,
> Adrien
>
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