Hi Steve,

Thanks for your comments.
The dates problem were between the download and the on-line statements. The
problem was when downloading February records for example, records on Feb 1st
were been shifted to Jan 31st and this was messing up my monthly reports.

Thanks for all the comments

MKucho

"Steve" wrote:

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Cal,

it worked great, thanks a lot.

"Cal Learner-- MVP" wrote:

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MKucho,
From your question, I assume that you have done automatic
downloads from your financial institution into Money. You have then run
statements in Money and are trying to compare the results with your
bank statement that you got in the mail. Am I correct? If so, I must
ask you what is the purpose of you using Money? The program has many
abilities to help you manage your personal finances but this sort of
use is meaningless. In order to benefit from using Money you must have
some knowledge of finances and accounting and you must be able to think
thru what you want Money to do for you. Worrying about the fact that
the Money date is different than the bank date should be understandable
to you given the mechanics of how the uploads work. Good luck to you.
Steve

In microsoft.public.money, MKucho wrote:

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One possibility is that the download date-times are set for midnight
(0000) of a timezone to the east of you. Money sees that time as the
day before.

At your end, you could work around this by setting your timezone to
GMT before downloading, and changing your timezone back after
processing.

The ideal solutions would include your bank timestamping the
transactions during working hours instead of midnight. This quirk is
addressed in the OFX specification. Of course Money could have been
designed to work around this by ignoring the time field, since it
will not be maintaining a time value anyway.

One possible explaination is that one is the transaction date verses
the date they posted it to your account. Another possibility is if you
make a payment on a Credit Card (as an example), it can post to your
Credit Card on one date and clear you checking account on another date.
You would be changing the date on one side of the transaction.

I was downloading statements yesterday for the first time (I recently started
to use MS Money) and the download was fast and I got all the information but
the dates were different from the bank statements. For example, transations
for January 4th was shown as January 3rd and so on. All the dates were
changed. I checked the Regional settings but no luck. Can someone help ?

Thanks

MKucho