Your post puzzles me. > I am trying to enter some transactions from March. Every now and again I > forget to change the date on something, so I get today’s date. Then I have > to go back to a backup file.
Why? Can't you just edit the date on the transaction and change it. > It would be nice when entering historical > transactions if it was impossible to use todays date - one is forced to > change the date is something in preferences prevented todays date being > used. I must be missing something. Not being able to use today's day would make it impossible to enter transactions on the day they occurred. Are you asking for some switch that could be set before entering historical transactions? It seems like a cumbersome solution to a non-problem. Will Dr. William H. Prescott México On Dec 26, 2022, at 12:47, Dr. David Kirkby <drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk> wrote: I am trying to enter some transactions from March. Every now and again I forget to change the date on something, so I get today’s date. Then I have to go back to a backup file. It would be nice when entering historical transactions if it was impossible to use todays date - one is forced to change the date is something in preferences prevented todays date being used. -- Dr. David Kirkby, Kirkby Microwave Ltd, drkir...@kirkbymicrowave.co.uk https://www.kirkbymicrowave.co.uk/ Telephone 01621-680100./ +44 1621 680100 Registered in England & Wales, company number 08914892. Registered office: Stokes Hall Lodge, Burnham Rd, Althorne, Chelmsford, Essex, CM3 6DT, United Kingdom _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
