Hm...That's odd. That fixed the problem. Thanks. Why that isn't the default setting is beyond me. But whatever.
If your data provider (free or not) can't accurately describe what their data represents - why are you using them?
It is not odd. The one and only thing being odd is google's use of future time stamping. It's plain stupid to use i.e. timestamp 09:31 for activity from 09:30:00 to 09:30:59 since next "future bar" 09:32 contains 09:31 as start time again and so on. It's idiotic. Thank God AB provide the flexibility to timeshift ASCII data back and forth. If you have stupid data like the one of Google then it still can be converted to correctly time stamped data any time. So if you want to download their 1minute data then add $TimeShift -0.01666666667 to mentioned format file since it is 1/60 minutes If you wanna download Google 5-min data then shift would be $TimeShift -0.08333333333 5/60 to get natural time stamping etc To my knowledge there is not other software allowing that. It's described by Tomasz Janeczko here http://www.amibroker.com/kb/2014/10/25/how-to-correct-forward-looking-timestamps/ that AB use natural time stamping. So a bar from 09:30:00 to 09:30:59 is stamped as 09:30 bar or you can go to Tools-preferences-intraday and set to end time of interval then a natural time stamped bar will be output with end time 09:30:59. But using 09:31:00 is simply misleading. So you ask why it's not default. Because AB does not do stupid stuff by default. AB's default setting is timeshift zero because it expects natural time stamp by default.