Re: Reports with Month-end rather that Month-start

2017-09-05 Thread Mark Hedges
Not sure about what to do in GnuCash, but the logic is simple to code with a good date/time library to work with. In Perl, for example, you'd do something like: my $dt = DateTime->new( year => $year, month => $month, day => 1 ) ->add( months => 1 ) ->subtract( days => 1 ) ; say

Re: Reports with Month-end rather that Month-start

2017-09-05 Thread David T. via gnucash-user
Ken, I don’t know where in the code base you want to look—but I will note that “the last day of the month” is more difficult to calculate than “the first day of the month.” The first day is always number 1; the last day varies month to month. I know some software packages make use of a

Re: Tax Tables - an illustrated primer?

2017-09-05 Thread Derek Atkins
Geert Janssens writes: > True. I have wondered about this also. I assume "Sales Tax" is a > standard term in American English ? It helps to consider that the > difference between an Yes. Sales Tax is both on purchases (where you pay the sales tax) and on sales

Re: Price editor unbalances accounts

2017-09-05 Thread Keith Bellairs
Been a gnucash user for years and never understood what Most Recent meant. BS w/ most recent shows my accounts to be almost in balance. Thanks, Keith On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 12:04 AM, John Ralls wrote: > > > > On Sep 4, 2017, at 7:43 PM, Keith Bellairs

Re: Help needed: 2.6.17 not building on 32-bit systems

2017-09-05 Thread Derek Atkins
Hi, Rich Shepard writes: > On Fri, 1 Sep 2017, Derek Atkins wrote: > >> What URL is showing the error? > > Derek, > > http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Bugzilla > >> What is the exact error message? > > Unable to connect. Try https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Bugzilla and

Re: Version Migration

2017-09-05 Thread Matthew Pounsett
On 31 August 2017 at 22:58, John Ralls wrote: > > > > On Aug 31, 2017, at 2:36 PM, Mike or Penny Novack < > stepbystepf...@dialup4less.com> wrote: > > > > Are folks saying that sqlite3 does NOT come with a backup/restore > utility? I would think that at least somewhat

Reports with Month-end rather that Month-start

2017-09-05 Thread km22
Hi Gnucash community, I want to start editing -- and eventually creating -- my own reports and figures. I think one place for me to start learning is by playing with some existing report settings -- such as the report date functionality. Currently when I run a report with a "monthly" period I