Hi Maf, just to inform you. Your assumption was totally correct. After fixing the date in the xml file I succeeded in importing the data into my mysql database. Many thanks to you and all others who friendly shared their thoughts concerning my issue. I'm still wondering a little how I could encounter a Windows bug in my pure Linux installation.
Joerg On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 22:43:28 +0200 Joerg Diederich <joerg_dieder...@freenet.de> wrote: > Hi Maf, > > thank you very much for this hint. I guess it points into the right > direction. I've just checked my xml file and indeed, there is an entry with > such a strange date. I will try to fix it as suggested and look, if I can > save the data into my mysql database. > > Joerg > > > On Mon, 16 Oct 2017 20:46:14 +0100 > "Maf. King" <m...@chilwell.net> wrote: > > > On Monday, 16 October 2017 17:27:13 BST Fred Bone wrote: > > > > > > > > A date in 1898 (as reported) looks more like a data error. > > > > I know the OP mentioned Linux - but isn't that date something to with a > > (fixed/ > > resolved) windows bug creating transactions from "before time existed" > > Just > > rings a distant bell with me... > > > > Maybe a grep of the xml file for something like the problem timestamp and > > fixing > > the data manually? A postdate won't be visible in the registers anywhere > > AFAIK. > > > > Back up the data file first.... then back it up again... > > > > 0.02 > > Maf. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gnucash-user mailing list > > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > > 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 > 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 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.