> On Jun 20, 2016, at 11:45 AM, Geert Janssens <geert.gnuc...@kobaltwit.be> > wrote: > > On Sunday 19 June 2016 11:31:39 John Ralls wrote: > > Devs, > > > > Bug 767824[1] has me thinking about this again. As I think everyone > > knows I want to change it from midnight local to 11:00AM UTC for the > > next version, but since fixing this bug also requires a scrub > > function at file read time to correct the (probably few) files with > > borked timestamps I'm thinking of doing it now. > > > > To review, a timestamp of 11:00AM UTC won't change date with the > > timezone except in -12, the zone immediately to the east of the > > International Date Line, and +13 and +14. Places affected according > > to [2] include Adak, Midway, and Baker Islands (-12), Samoa and > > Tokelau (+13), and Kiribati (+14). > > > > Comments? > > > > Regards, > > John Ralls > > > > [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=767824 > > <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=767824> [2] > > http://www.timeanddate.com/time/map/ > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-devel mailing list > > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > > Hi John, > > In addition to the time stamp use cases Christian already mentioned, I > believe the time stamp is also relevant for sorting entries on an > invoice/bill ledger. This was implemented as a hack by Christian IIRC such > that to move an entry up or down the list on the same day, internally the > post dates of the two entries would be swapped. As the post times currently > all differ, this would effectively alter the sorting order. If all post times > will be normalized this hack will no longer work. That's one other case to > keep in mind when dropping post times. > > Other than that I'm fine with making the time change for the next release.
Geert, Where is that code? Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
