-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Dave recently said that all user input is parsed in localtime. Among other things that means that the Report-From and -To dates are interpreted differently in different timezones. I.e. I'll get different numbers in my reports when I run Gnucash in different timezones. Not too good. For example, if I have a transaction at Apr01 0:00 EST, and I later run a report in PST, then that transaction will suddenly show up on Mar31. (because Apr01 0:00 EST = Mar31 21:00 PST) On the other hand, if we would interpret all report-related user-specified dates in UTC, then (according to Dave) we would get wrong output, of course, unless the user knew were were ignoring their timezones. Now my problem is the following: I am going to switch timezones every now and then. Of course it's a nice thing to have dates from PST correctly shown in EST. However, regardless of my timezone, I have a *very strong* preference of which transactions belong to which *month*. And in the above example the timezone stuff would lead to the "wrong thing" (TM) Conrad remarked on IRC that he was trying to explain this thing the other week when this was discussed. He would think the mentioned problem would be similar for various tax things too.... By the way, you can change the timezone by setting the TZ environment variable, e.g. by TZ=GMT . - -- Christian Stimming Recently on #gnucash: <jcollins> oh wow.... just realized you can move the pie charts around in the reports... how neat <jcollins> awesome <jcollins> alright... now you can remove the sexy guppi piecharts from gnucash.... <cstim> ?!? <jcollins> makes it **WAY*** to easy to see how wastefull i am with my money!!!! hahaha <jcollins> these reports really do kick ass though -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) iQCVAwUBOtK9RGXAi+BfhivFAQETMgQAmYs1E87JpT5pby8XxOk2MvqiyXLfUIzS C7ngTznr3VN6/wV5yIEDjONyeVkPQ68WqpKGQp2sbctrQV4cGjplnMg1GgxkDKRF L2Hs6xDZA8+USeTSfh9nA0RwgWUTudrIFUqGvxjwQr4WwFQ00nhmhifwfIwV5x64 vi4lRQBEOv4= =N0oj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gnumatic.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
