So, does it matter what Timezone I pick for a security in the Security Editor? In particular, "Use local time" versus "America/New_York"?
On Sun, Apr 2, 2023 at 6:57 PM john <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > > On Apr 2, 2023, at 1:37 AM, Fred Tydeman <tydeman.f...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I am talking about price quotes. I am trying to get month end and > quarter end valuations. > > So that I can compare what GnuCash has versus statements from broker (to > see if I have > > any missing or wrong transactions). > > > > In a couple of years, I plan on living full time on a ship as it travels > around the world. > > So the problem is that the quotes were as usual undated and although it > was still 31 March at home it was 1 April where you are now and since the > quotes didn't have a date on them GnuCash was marking them as 1 April, and > that breaks reports using the nearest before price source. > > The easiest way to handle that is to set the TZ variable to whatever time > zone the market you're interested is in, but there's no good solution even > possible if you hold securities traded in multiple time zones, especially > if some are in Asia and others in America. > > Regards, > John Ralls > > _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org 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.
