[Kmymoney] Re: Importing OFX puts transactions a day behind

[Thomas Baumgart]

Hi,

on Thursday 02 December 2010 07:11:34 Thomas Baumgart wrote:

> Hi Felipe Castillo,
> 
> on Thursday 02 December 2010 00:34:28 you wrote:
> > All the dates in the file are correct. When I import the file, the
> > entries dated of 20101130 appear as 20101129 in KMyMoney and the same
> > goes for the entries dated 20101201.
> 
> Yes, they are correct, but ...
> 
> <DTPOSTED>20101130000000.000[-5:EDT]
> 
> Is actually a timestamp with the value of 2010-11-30 00:00:00 and is
> interpreted by libOFX before it gets transported to the first code line of
> KMyMoney. This part of libOFX subtracts 5 hrs by mistake from the given
>  date which leads to 2010-11-29 19:00:00. Hence you see the wrong date.

And if that is not the case you got bitten by the uninitialized daylight-
saving-time variable in the libOFX code. This will cause subtracting an hour 
from the above mentioned timestamp, leaving you at 2010-11-29 23:00:00 with 
the same result.

In any case, you need to fix libOFX.

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Regards

Thomas Baumgart

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