Hi Thierry,

On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Thierry Le Guillou <[email protected]> wrote:
> hello,
> I have some photos from my grand-grand father that I scanned and stored with
> Shotwell.
> But when I try to put the real date in picture metadat field : 1 july 1896,
> Shotwell modify the date in 1 july 1970 !
> Is there any limitation on dates ? In metadatas or in shotwell calendar
> interface ? Is it possible to unlimit this ?
Unfortunately, due to a code limitation, Shotwell does not handle
dates before 1 January 1902.  Changing this limit might be tricky,
since we rely on glib for dates and times.

> What about a text field to put directly the date in picture ?
By using the hierarchical tag system, you can do exactly that.  You
might try something like creating a tag named '1896', then underneath
that, a child tag named 'July', a child of that child named '1st' and
then tagging your photographs from that date with that.  This allows
you to sort your images by date, even if the date is prior to 1902.

I hope this helps you, but if you have any other questions, please
feel free to respond.
Cheers,
-c
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