Re: price.date, transaction.post_date and neutral time

2018-02-13 Thread Sébastien de Menten
On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 6:32 AM, Wm via gnucash-devel < gnucash-devel@gnucash.org> wrote: > On 12/02/2018 21:00, Sébastien de Menten wrote: > >> When I enter a new price for a given day for a security on the NASDAQ via >> the price editor, it is stored in the date column the UTC time for that >>

Re: price.date, transaction.post_date and neutral time

2018-02-13 Thread Alen Siljak
> Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 at 8:13 AM > From: "Wm via gnucash-devel" > To: gnucash-de...@lists.gnucash.org > Subject: Re: price.date, transaction.post_date and neutral time > > That is interesting. There has been quite a lot of enthusiasm for > mobile / gnc

Re: price.date, transaction.post_date and neutral time

2018-02-13 Thread Wm via gnucash-devel
On 13/02/2018 09:12, Alen Siljak wrote: Done. https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GnuCash_and_Mobile_Devices sweet Aside: I am completely confused how MMEX for Android could be used for Asset Allocation, MMEX doesn't understand Assets and Liabilities and Equity! Looking at the forums, the dev's

Re: Scope of GNUCash

2018-02-13 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Michael, I agree completely on the separation point, especially with regard to controls. I’ve seen first hand when sales clerks have the ability to void and edit their own transactions from a point of sales system. I can’t imagine the damage that WOULD be done if they also had the ability to

Re: price.date, transaction.post_date and neutral time

2018-02-13 Thread Wm
On 13/02/2018 12:47, Sébastien de Menten wrote: On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 6:32 AM, Wm via gnucash-devel < gnucash-devel@gnucash.org> wrote: On 12/02/2018 21:00, Sébastien de Menten wrote: When I enter a new price for a given day for a security on the NASDAQ via the price editor, it is stored

Re: Scope of GNUCash

2018-02-13 Thread Mike or Penny Novack
On 2/13/2018 2:55 AM, Wm via gnucash-devel wrote: A couple of times I have noticed that people have said "That's not what GNUCash is for". It begs the question - where is it defined what GNUCash is and isn't for? The charter for GNUCash doesn't seem to ever been formalised. There is a long

Re: price.date, transaction.post_date and neutral time

2018-02-13 Thread Sébastien de Menten
r/2012/2018/ (it was a typo) My point is that a price entered via the price editor (manually) is handled differently than a price generated via a transaction and may be (haven't tested) different than a price downloaded via the Finance:Quote module. And indeed, as the time component is meaningless

RE: Scope of GNUCash

2018-02-13 Thread Matt Graham
 I think I would love to sit down in a pub with the three of you (Wm, Adrien, and Mike). I think we could have such awesome semi-drunken discussions about the nature of life, the universe and everything! I think you have basically answered my question, and I think we all basically agree on

Re: price.date, transaction.post_date and neutral time

2018-02-13 Thread Wm via gnucash-devel
On 13/02/2018 18:12, Sébastien de Menten wrote: r/2012/2018/ (it was a typo) ok My point is that a price entered via the price editor (manually) is handled differently than a price generated via a transaction Isn't that a good thing ? I shouldn't have to say again that the price db is

Re: Scope of GNUCash

2018-02-13 Thread David T. via gnucash-devel
Matt, I again applaud your promise (threat?! ;) ) to update the slim information about the Budget section. As you do, be sure to look through the list archives and the wiki for any information you might draw in to the Tutorial; there have been numerous discussions over the years about how to

Re: Scope of GNUCash

2018-02-13 Thread Wm via gnucash-devel
On 13/02/2018 15:30, Adrien Monteleone wrote: Michael, I agree completely on the separation point, especially with regard to controls. If you agree on that you are an idiot, Mike's POV is (if I understand correctly over a period of time) mainly a charitable one. I’ve seen first hand when

Re: price.date, transaction.post_date and neutral time

2018-02-13 Thread David T. via gnucash-devel
Wm, Sebastien, I profess to not paying too much attention to this thread, but IIRC, there was a time when the price entered into transactions was NOT entered into the price DB, which meant that users would often get useless reports on commodities, since the reports use price DB entries to

Re: Scope of GNUCash

2018-02-13 Thread Adrien Monteleone
Not sure what the current POTUS office holder has to do with anything related, but, whatever… I was just in NOLA for a few days, now back home in Lafayette. Happiness is measured in beer, or something similar, here. I’ve had several beers today, so my happiness meter is reading high at the

Re: Scope of GNUCash

2018-02-13 Thread Christopher Lam
Hi Adrien - from someone who jumped head first into scheme, come on in :) the water's warm, and the old guard are very happy to help you implement your wishlist. Meanwhile you'll soon see for yourself what the project needs and can dabble in too. Scheme currently needs lots of refactoring and

Re: Scope of GNUCash

2018-02-13 Thread Wm via gnucash-devel
On 13/02/2018 21:53, Matt Graham wrote:  I think I would love to sit down in a pub with the three of you (Wm, Adrien, and Mike). I think we could have such awesome semi-drunken discussions about the nature of life, the universe and everything! I'm in London. Mike is in a Trump voting bit of

RE: Scope of GNUCash

2018-02-13 Thread Matt Graham
Not sure why you think I’m one of the “demanding” people... I’m not actually asking for anything – I’m trying to figure out how this all works, what I really need, and how I can contribute to make it happen I don’t expect anything specific from the core dev group – I just want to fit in