Hi,

first I feel sorry that I seem to have offended frankster (wtfrank) in
my earlier notes in this bug. Yes, my question in note #1 was not
helpful at all, and I now regret that I wrote it at all. For me it was
obvious that the date format d-m-y means exactly this: A string composed
of three groups of digits separated by dashes. This format is so common
in the IT industry that I thought my brief notes were enough to
understand the problem. So please accept my apologies for not taking
enough time to write an answer with an end user and not an IT expert in
mind.

Regarding the user expectation that Gnucash should import whatever
format the banks provide, please note that there are so many calendar
date formats in use all over the world that it is almost impossible to
always parse a string representation of any calendar date correctly. If
a bank decides to invent yet another date format (I consider separating
the numbers with spaces odd), please contact your bank and ask them to
fix the CSV export. This is not really a Gnucash issue, which is why I
changed the status to 'Invalid' in note #6. Sorry for not explaining it
at that time.

Back to the issue this is all about: In note #5, frankster (wtfrank)
does not explicitly answer my question whether the import works when
using a dash as a separator. When I wrote note #6, I assumed that it
does. SHULTZIE, in note #8 you wrote that you have too issues with
importing CSV files, even when using a dash as a separator. Is this
correct? Unfortunately I can't try it on my own as I have no such CSV
file. So, frankster and/or SHULTZIE, could you please confirm that it
works with a dash as separator (at least if the CSV data adhere to the
selected order of day, month and year)? Alternatively, can you please
provide a test file and more precise instructions how to reproduce the
issue?

I hope all this helps to get to a better resolution of this issue. But
if anybody could provide the requested information, I am sure we will
find a resolution that everybody can agree with.

Regards,
Micha

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