[GNC] Security timezone

[David T.]

I hesitate to jump in, since John is so much more knowledgeable and informed, but his reply (and my understanding of the back side functioning in this area) would suggest that the quote source doesn't usually include any time zone information, and the time zone that GnuCash inserts into its data set is chosen specifically to ensure that quote dates won't change when viewed in different times zones. So, it's not clear to me why you would encounter date changes. 

That being said, I have a few questions, the first being, how long is your trip? If it's a short term thing, perhaps you can accept the discrepancy until you return to your home time zone, at which time the shift would presumably revert to your expectation.  

The second is, how important is it to know that a given price relates to Monday, as opposed to Tuesday? My experience is that the specific dates of such valuations is secondary to the general valuation at some point in time. Any concern with a specific date and time is either related to an actual event (purchase/sale), or is due to my own obsessive nature. The former gets handled in the actual transaction, while the latter takes therapy.  ;)

The third is, are you actually discussing price quotes, or perhaps transactions? Your initial query refers to securities, while John interpreted that to mean price quotes. Transactions can have more specific times associated with them (although I can't imagine an actual security having any sort of time attached to it). Perhaps this is a source of confusion in this exchange? 

⁣David T. ​

On Apr 2, 2023, 6:41 AM, at 6:41 AM, Fred Tydeman <tydeman.fred at gmail.com> wrote:
>I am on a trip where I am 10 hours ahead of home timezone.
>So prices appear to be one day ahead of home time
>with the default of Local timezone.
>So, I am hoping that picking New York timezone will help.
>
>On Sat, Apr 1, 2023 at 8:54 PM john <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>
>> There's nothing to do either.
>>
>> Do you have a price-source that actually sets a time? Most don't so
>we set
>> the default time (10:59 AM UTC) so that the date is right in all
>timezones.
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>>
>>
>> > On Mar 31, 2023, at 10:51 PM, Fred Tydeman <tydeman.fred at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Is there a way to set a default timezone for adding security?
>> > Is there a way to mass change the timezones for existing
>securities?
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