On Monday 02 May 2016 17:31:36 Robert Fewell wrote: > Just checked all four systems, both Linux systems are Gentoo based > with a timezone of 'Europe/London', used date +'%:z %Z' which > returned +01:00 BST for both. > > XP VM has time zone of '(GMT) Casablanca' with DST ticked and > Windows10 is '(UTC) Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London' with DST > ticked. All systems synced to a NTP clock. > > So there appears to be a discrepancy between Linux and windows stored > date-times unless I am confused ? > > Robert > > On 2 May 2016 at 16:11, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > > On May 2, 2016, at 6:33 AM, Robert Fewell <14ubo...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > John, > > > > > > I think I have found the problem, well may be the start, in > > > > gnc-timezone.cpp on line 230, I think it should be max_year instead > > of 0.> > > > If I change that, then Gnucash starts up but I think some thing > > > else is> > > wrong also. If I create a new file with two transactions, one today > > and one 02/03/2016 before BST, they are stored in the xml files as > > follows, all entered between 13:00 and 14:00 local time... > > > > > XFCE, Gnucash 2.6.11 > > > > > > date posted 2016-03-02 00:00:00 +0000 > > > date entered 2016-05-02 13:31:39 +0100 > > > > > > date posted 2016-05-02 00:00:00 +0100 > > > date entered 2016-05-02 13:31:24 +0100 > > > > > > Gnome VM, Gnucash Master > > > > > > date posted 2016-03-02 00:00:00 +0000 > > > date entered 2016-05-02 13:24:39 +0100 > > > > > > date posted 2016-05-02 00:00:00 +0100 > > > date entered 2016-05-02 13:24:39 +0100 > > > > > > Win10, Gnucash Master > > > > > > date posted 2016-03-02 00:00:00 -0100 > > > date entered 2016-05-02 12:45:55 +0000 > > > > > > date posted 2016-05-02 00:00:00 +0000 > > > date entered 2016-05-02 12:45:39 +0000 > > > > > > WinXP VM, Gnucash Master > > > > > > date posted 2016-03-02 00:00:00 -0100 > > > date entered 2016-05-02 12:55:46 +0000 > > > > > > date posted 2016-05-02 00:00:00 +0000 > > > date entered 2016-05-02 12:55:32 +0000 > > > > > > Just looking for confirmation before I start looking further. > > > > Robert, > > > > Yes, I think you're right about line 230. > > > > As for the stored date-times, are the timezones the same on the > > various systems and VMs? Looks like it's -1/0 (standard/summer, > > relative to UTC) on Windows and 0/+1 on Linux. > > Perhaps our windows build (which depends on mingw) isn't picking up daylight saving time information from the windows time configuration.
I ran into this problem with MSYS also: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2563044/changing-timezone-in-msys/4016076#4016076 Geert _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
