GL Date for unreconciled items doesn’t default to system date

Hello

Could you kindly clarify the correct behaviour for GL Date, when a bank statement line is unreconciled? Should it

1) default to system date or

2) default to GL-date from statement header

In my test instance, when I unreconcile a payment line for a period that is open, and try to reconcile again, the GL_date defaults to the gl_date from the statement header.

However, my users think it should default to sysdate.

I did some searches in metalink and came across this metalink note

R12: CE: FAQs: Definitions of Transaction Date, Value Date, Cleared Date And Statement Date and GL date (