Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: gnucash

When I move my laptop eg from Sydney to London timezone, gnucash behaves
poorly.

The user model is that transactions are done on a particular day; for
example I pay my rent on the first day of each month.  When creating a
transaction in the ledger or through a recurring transaction, one can
only choose a date for it to occur, not a time, and I doubt that
tracking the time would be very useful.

However, it looks like gnucash internally stores the transaction as a
timestamp, and displays them in the local time.  So after moving to
London, the rent payments appear to have been done on the last day of
the previous month, and if I enter transactions in London they'll appear
against the wrong day when I return home.

As a workaround you can set TZ before running gnucash.

There's some discussion of it here:

http://www.mail-archive.com/gnucash-
[email protected]/msg03494.html

** Affects: gnucash
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: Unknown

** Affects: gnucash (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #137017
   http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137017

** Also affects: gnucash via
   http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137017
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

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gnucash is confused by timezone changes
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/365065
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