[GNC] Reconciliation of accounts is not permanent

[Peter Lamb]

On 28/9/2023 10:22, Adrien Monteleone wrote:
> On the contrary, GnuCash has *always* as far as I can recall after 
> over a decade, suggested today's date for the closing date. I don't 
> ever remember it suggesting a date in the past.

When I do reconciliations, the default statement date is one calendar 
month after the previous statement date. Once it has aligned to the date 
of a statement, it continues using that date for me.

It works that way for statements like my bank statement, which is dated 
as the last day of the month and also for one of my credit card 
statements, where the statement date is near the middle of the month. 
Our statements are still snail-mailed, so when I do the reconciliation 
the statement date and the default statement date. However, if I start a 
reconciliation on one of those counts before the next due statement 
date, the suggested statement date is the current date.

All of that works very well for me.

> And when I tested this last night on an account I know I haven't 
> reconciled in over a year (yes, I'm behind in duties) it suggested 
> yesterday's date, not something over a year old 

If I miss the reconciliation of a statement, when reconcile the first 
one, it offers the date of the missed statement, and once that's been 
reconciled, it offers the date of the next statement.

If I start a reconciliation on a register that has never been 
reconciled, then the statement date defaults to the current date.

Peter