I just started to look at gnucash. I wanted to have some stuff to play,
and I QIF-exported a file from Quicken 2000 (aka Quicken 8), german
version. Btw, at least this version allows to export all accounts to one
QIF file.
Then I imported the QIF-file to gnucash: All transactions get a date of
1/1/1970. Looking deeper, I noticed that gnucash expects the date fromat
to be month/day/year, while my QIF-file contains month.day.year
To solve that, I would fix gnucash _if_ the QIF-file is valid. If not, I
would write a utility to fix the QIF-file. Somehow I suspect that the
QIF-file is broken: The dot is a german date separator, but the order
m.d.y is not what we use here. And it doesn't make much sense to use
localized date strings in things like QIF-files. (And this quicken version
is full of bugs anyway. This in combination with Intuit being totally
uninterested in any feedback is why I look at gnucash.)
Since I could not find a spec for valid datestrings in QIF-files, I ask
here: Should gnucash be fixed, or should I fix the QIF-file?
Peter
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