[Shotwell] Ancient question

[bryan]

I've got images going back to the 1880s.  The program is mishandling 
older images (this is a known issue #3040).   Images appear to be 
disappearing (sorting incorrectly) within my 10k database and dating an 
image to say 1940 will also stuff up its event and today I just noticed 
a random sample of my images sitting in the rubbish bin (scary).  It's 
hard to pin down the date beyond which things go awry, for every test I 
do the limit seems to float around.

So...  does anyone know within what date range does Shotwell reliably 
operate?