Gnucash: Default reconcile date to today?

Question

When I begin reconciling an account in GnuCash, the statement date field is populated with a value that seems to be random. Is there a way to make it default to the current date?

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 02 '20 at 19:22

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While I don't know of a way to make today's date (rather than what I believe to be one month following the previous reconciled statement's date) the default, you can press t in any date field to cause the current day's date to be entered.

answered Mar 02 '20 at 19:22

chepner

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 17 '20 at 16:43

Tony, there IS a way to make it default to today's date.

If you open Edit / Preferences, then select the Register tab, you will see a tickbox option for "Always reconcile to today". The helptext indicates that the result of ticking this box will be Always open the reconcile dialog using today's date for the statement date, regardless of previous reconciliations.

I think that is what you are after.

Gnucash: Default reconcile date to today?

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