[Shotwell] Ancient question

[Adam Dingle]

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 9:38 PM, bryan wrote:
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?

Bryan,

currently Shotwell correctly handles dates after January 1, 1970. Â This is the start of Unix/POSIX time:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time

As you noticed, we want to enhance Shotwell to handle older dates:

http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/3040

As I mentioned in comment #3 on that ticket:

>It would be cool to move everything to GDateTime and serialize that format as a 64-bit number of microseconds since the year 1 ...

Once we've done that, you'll be able to assign correct dates to all your old photos of the Roman Empire at its height and of Han Dynasty China. Â I hope we'll be able to implement this for the next release (0.13). Â Cheers -

adam