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
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