The date cell handles the following accelerator keys:

• +, = increment day

• _ , - decrement day

• } , ] increment month

• { , [ decrement month

• M , m beginning of month

• H , h end of month

• Y , y beginning of year

• R , r end of year

• T , t today

GnuCash can be configured to use a variety of date input formats by setting a preference.