Bug 283643 - New account wizard default account opening date is set to start of fiscal year
Summary: New account wizard default account opening date is set to start of fiscal year
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Alias: None
Product: kmymoney
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: SVN
Platform: Compiled Sources Linux
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Assignee: KMyMoney Devel Mailing List
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Reported: 2011-10-09 10:02 UTC by David Houlden
Modified: 2011-10-09 11:44 UTC (History)
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Description David Houlden 2011-10-09 10:02:45 UTC
Version:           SVN trunk (using KDE 4.5.5) 
OS:                Linux

When setting up a new account in the wizard, the account opening date defaults to the date of the start of fiscal year. While I appreciate that kmymoney cannot predict what the date should be, maybe setting it to today is a better option. Currently, when I click on the calendar icon to select the correct date I may have to go forward several months to get the correct opening date.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
As described above.

Actual Results:  
Account opening date defaults to start of fiscal year.

Expected Results:  
Date to default to today's date.
Comment 1 Thomas Baumgart 2011-10-09 10:47:32 UTC
This used to be the default behavior and caused a lot of problems, as people wanted to add transactions prior to that date and could not enter them. From the log message of rev 1153976 on 2010-07-24: "Default the opening date for new accounts to be the first day of the fiscal year."

BTW: did you know, that pressing the little icon in the lower left corner of the calendar widget left of the printed date selects the current date?
Comment 2 David Houlden 2011-10-09 11:44:44 UTC
No, I didn't know about that facility in the calendar widget, thanks. 

Now you have explained why this was done I am happy to close this. I remember the problem now.