[GNC] gnucash-user Digest, Vol 237, Issue 113

[Phyllis Bruce]

It’s no biggie changing the date and many programs default on the.current date or the last entered. It’s fine with me if you just leave it alone.  Besides, unless I’m mistaken, when I pull in a QFX, the system uses the date it cleared the bank, not the date entered or written.

> On Dec 29, 2022, at 6:48 PM, Fross, Michael <michael at fross.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> I, too, enter the receipts immediately.  If I buy something online, it's
> actually exactly the same time as the purchase.  If it's a real store, it
> gets entered once I'm home.  Having it default to "today" is the right
> answer for me.
> 
> Michael
> 
>> On Thu, Dec 29, 2022 at 5:23 PM Chris Skudder <cskudder at earthlink.net>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>   FWIW, I'm another who enters most txn's on the same day I make them.
>>   IMHO, one of the great and beautiful advantages of GnuCash over
>>   Quickbooks Online (which I must use to do our church's accounts) - is
>>   that GC opens basically instantaneously. There's no network latency, no
>>   login, no "let's make sure it's really you" and "let's verify your cell
>>   number," no clicking thru "Don't you want to sign up for our payroll
>>   service, and our credit card processing service" and Lord knows what
>>   else, before I can do what "I" want to do, versus what Intuit wants me
>>   to do.
>>   For me, I can open the computer from standby, open GnuCash, enter the
>>   txn, and stash the receipt "off the deck" somewhere, quite a bit faster
>>   than try to find receipts later, find time, remember what they're for,
>>   + etc.
>>   Realizing everybody's different ... but my own 1 vote is to keep the
>>   date default "today", or at least to give a user the OPTION to default
>>   txn dates to today.
>>   So hooray for open source software, and for the talented and dedicated
>>   peep's who do the coding that I don't know how to do.
>>   Thank you to you all.
>>   Chris
>>     __________________________________________________________________
>> 
>>   From: [1]gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org
>>   Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2022, 12:00 PM
>>   To: [2]gnucash-user at gnucash.org
>>   Subject: gnucash-user Digest, Vol 237, Issue 113
>> 
>> On 12/28/2022 11:11 AM, R Losey wrote:
>> 
>> That would be an interesting poll (about when one enters data)
>> 
>> References
>> 
>>   1. mailto:gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org
>>   2. mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org
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