Charles Day wrote: > On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Derek Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Mike or Penny Novack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> I would pay close attention to what Graham says here. >>> >>>> I didn't say that *all* timestamps were unnecessary, what I said was >>>> that dates that are actually dates, and not times, are being stored >>>> as times, and that this is incorrect. >>>> >>>> For an example, look at the date entered in a transaction. The UI >>>> only allows you to choose a year, a month and a day, and because of >>>> this, you should only store a year, a month and a day. >>>> >>> It is actually the case that (depending on financial policies) storing >>> the actual time could present problems. >>> >>> For example -- the rule might be "process all credits for the given >>> date before any debits for that date" --- or vice versa. If the >>> programmer mistakenly used time stamps rather than dates, the sort >>> would not give the expected results. >> These rules can certainly vary from place to place, locale to locale, >> or even person to person. Why force the issue? IF we let users >> set the TimeOfDay (see bug #89439) then users could easily set the >> intra-day ordering of transactions themselves. If GnuCash ONLY >> stored a date then there would be NO WAY to set this. So I think >> storing a timestamp really is more flexible. >> >> Having said that, I'll reiterate that I do still think there is a bug >> here. I think that by DEFAULT GnuCash should store time stamps as >> 1200 UTC on the day in question instead of what appears to ME to be >> 0000 Local. Using 1200UTC would give a proper DAY computation in any >> timezone even when converted to localtime (except perhaps if there >> were a UTC+12 or UTC-12 timezone, at which point there's possibly a >> fencepost issue). However I dont believe there is anyone who lives >> *ON* the international date line. >> > > I agree, 1200UTC would prevent time zones from shifting transactions to > another day. That would be a better default than 0000 local. That could work > for default price times as well (see but 541970). > > P.S. I remember being in Tonga; the date line goes right through their > country. There is an "International Date Line" hotel with the line running > right through the building (or so they tell the tourists).
Hmmm... I thought the International Date Line was designed to *not* intersect any land. That's why it's not straight. From Wikipedia, "The date line circumvents the territory of Kiribati by swinging far to the east, almost reaching the 150° meridian. In the South Pacific the dateline swings east such that Wallis and Futuna, Fiji, Tonga, and New Zealand's Kermadec Islands have the same date but Samoa is one day earlier." Phil _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
