We do have a ticket for this, by the way: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/3040
-- Jim On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Clinton Rogers <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Shotwell mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell > _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
