[GNC] Configurable Year Start Day/Month

[Adrien Monteleone]

I can certainly see the utility of being able to define various 'start 
of year' options for different reports. Though I think this is 
essentially what the 'accounting period' option was supposed to 
accomplish. (and then the report's generic 'start of accounting period' 
will use that date)

However, this preference allows only either a very general relative 
date, or an absolute date with a year, so it has to be reset if wanting 
to set a specific date. I think there is already a bug report for it.

If this preference offered the ability to set *any* day relative to 
*any* year, would that accomplish your goal?

(I still think a hard absolute date option is useful for someone working 
on historical data)

Regards,
Adrien

On 4/14/23 7:22 PM, flywire wrote:
> Vincent, you seem confident. I posted an example. Can you demonstrate
> changing say Start of This Year to 1 July in V5?
> 
> Code at
> https://github.com/flywire/gnucash/blob/Fiscal-year/libgnucash/app-utils/date-utilities.scm#L557-L569
> works in V4 (check cur-year/cal-year). See comments at
> https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-devel/2021-September/045956.html
> 
> Regards
> 
> https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2023-April/106464.html
> wrote:
> 
>> As for the changes in version 5.0, they don't really impact the ability to
>> create custom reports... Bottom line version 5.0 is actually easier to work
>> with for creating options.
>>
>> https://lists.gnucash.org/pipermail/gnucash-user/2023-April/106463.html
>>   wrote:
>>
>>> A new section is needed to address moving the option lists into C++ lists.
>>> It seems those options, say start/end-of-year, could be overwritten in
>>> scheme so they are customised before being used in reports, restoring
>>> previous functionality.