Done. Bug 797847 <https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=797847>

I left out the moribund straggling check issue, since it’s a much lower 
priority to me. I write about 5 checks a year these days. The credit card 
import issue pretty much happens every time I import.

Dave
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Dave Reiser
dbrei...@icloud.com





> On Jul 5, 2020, at 3:11 PM, Jim DeLaHunt <list+gnuc...@jdlh.com> wrote:
> 
> On 2020-07-05 11:49, David Reiser via gnucash-user wrote:
>> …From my perspective, transactions posting within 3 days of the transaction 
>> date should still get a match score of 6. One day after transaction ought to 
>> be 8. One of the grocery stores I go to frequently has never posted the 
>> charge to the credit card company the next day. Sometimes there’s only a 
>> 2-day gap, but it is frequently 3 days. I suspect the difference between 2 
>> and 3 days is related to how late in the evening I go shopping.
>> 
>> And on the extreme end, for a checking account transaction, if the imported 
>> check number (complicated by bank-prepended zeroes) and amount match 
>> exactly, and the date in gnucash is within 180 days of the bank’s date, then 
>> the transaction should still have some usable match score. In the U.S., the 
>> bank will still pay that check. I have had friends sit on checks for 
>> excessive lengths of time.
> 
> David, I completely agree with you. I have been doing a lot of transaction 
> importing from OFX recently, and it's a continuing problem that I can't trust 
> the matcher to handle dates the way you describe.
> 
> Would you care to add a bug report for this into the bug tracker, 
> <https://bugs.gnucash.org/> ? If so, I'll second it.
> 
> Best regards,
>     —Jim DeLaHunt, software engineer, Vancouver, Canada
> 

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