Reconciliation; Reconcile Details Window; Please Fix Extremely Annoying Date Fields Bug

Timothy Frank

Hello Quicken Classic team. I am using the latest version of Quicken Classic ( Release R65.29 ).

The subject of interest here is the Reconcile Details window used to enter the parameters of a reconciliation to an account.

Let me express my desire to have you fix a bug that's lived in that window from the beginning of Quicken. That bug is extremely annoying and has to do with the two date fields underneath the Categorize your interest and bank charges, if any separator.

Below is an illustration of the Reconcile Details window.

The Service charge: date field and the Interest earned date field are the two fields that will frustrate a person.

Note that the date of the December reconciliation has been filled in by Quicken as 12/30/2025. When a person attempts to do the obvious so as to correct this to 12/31/2025 the software rejects the data entry. The obvious thing is to position the data entry cursor on the number 12 and then type 12/31.

What happens instead is that the software accepts the '1' character (the 1st character of the number 12) and then refuses to accept another key. The resulting display then becomes stuck as follows:

As you might imagine, this provokes a negative emotional response.

The only way to update the field properly is to select the entire date field and type in a terse version of the date as 12/31/25; the selection mechanism is illustrated below:

To make this bug even more annoying, when a person types 12/31/2025 the software again rejects the attempt. This deepens the negative emotional response.

To recover from the attempt at typing the date as 12/31/2025 a person must re-select the entire date field and then type the solution as 12/31/25.

You will be exalted for all time should you correct this behavior so that the date fields accept any properly formatted entry (e.g. 1/1/25, 01/01/2025, 12/31/25, 12/31/2025).

Note. The behavior described above does not happen with the Ending statement date: field. That field will accept any date that is properly formatted.