On 08 July 2018 at 9:51, Mark Blakeney said: [...] > Then I eventually discovered the Type/Namespace > field serves no purpose whatever and can be configured to whatever you > want to make up! That field should be removed. The obvious purpose is to let the user group securities by type. If you have no use for such a distinction, you can choose to ignore it.
> Also, why is it required to > configure a timezone? The software is only after the latest quote price > and should be able to hide that complexity from the user. Your timezone determines when midnight (and hence a new day) occurs relative to UTC. This may be different from the corresponding offset of a given quote-source. And you are not "required" to tell Gnucash what timezone your quote-source uses: there is a default. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
