Two items: I understand what you wrote about legally tendering something, but I was thinking of mailing bills... I may write them on Monday, and drop them into the mail, but until the mail is received by the creditor, it isn't paid. But yes, I have looked at US IRS regulations, and (for example), a charitable contribution is considered made on the date you give it, not when the organization caches it.
When I enter past transactions, the initial date is 'today', but every subsequent entry defaults to the date I last used (until I restart GnuCash) On Wed, Dec 28, 2022 at 3:16 PM Adrien Monteleone < [email protected]> wrote: > On 12/28/22 10:07 AM, R Losey wrote: > > While that is technically true, I enter credit card charges on the day I > > use the card, not when it clears... ditto for writing checks, and I > suspect > > most people do it that way. > Those generally *are* the days payment is legally made. When you hand > over a check, that is an act of 'tendering'. The fact that the banking > system doesn't clear it immediately or even that the recipient doesn't > present it for payment immediately does not matter to your books. (save > to later reconcile cleared items) And to be pedantic, the date on the > check is the actual tendering date, if later than the current calendar > date. (hence the term 'post dated check') > > With respect the Cards, the situation is similar but with usually > shorter lag times. Merchants usually submit pending charges in batches > at close of day or at a set time. The money appears in their account > next day or maybe 72hours later. Your account with the Card issuer is > affected immediately. > > But Michael is referring to the possible situation where you don't enter > transactions on those same days, instead, you may enter them a week or > even months later. The day you make the entry is not relevant. The day > the transaction occurred, is. > > The OP's issue is with GnuCash reverting to 'today' as a default when > entering batches of historical transactions as being cumbersome. > > As I and others have noted, we don't observe that behavior, so it is > possibly a work-flow issue. > > Regards, > Adrien > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > [email protected] > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > 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. > -- _________________________________ Richard Losey [email protected] Micah 6:8 _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: 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.
