Random order of photos when changed the date of a photo in 1944

[Hanno André]

In Shotwell, I changed the date of a photo and set it in 1944 : then, my photos normally sort by date are mixed !
If I set the date in 1950, all my photos becomes in good order .
Tested with Shotwell 0.11.6 on Xubuntu 11.10

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: shotwell 0.11.6-0ubuntu0.1 [modified: usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/gschemas.compiled]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-16.28-generic-pae 3.0.17
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-16-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Feb 25 21:19:45 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111012)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: shotwell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Laura Khalil (loura)]

Thanks for reporting this. A few questions to help debug this:

- How are you changing the date of the photo?
- When you mention that if you change the date of the photo to 1944 and all the photos are mixed, can you clarify where they are mixed? Do you mean that the library view no longer properly displays them by date, or are you referring to a change in how the event folders are displayed?
- Can you describe the steps to reproduce this? Currently, I am unable to reproduce this issue, so more information would be appreicated.

[Adam Dingle (adam-yorba)]

This is a known bug: Shotwell does not correctly handle dates before 1969. If you try to give photos dates earlier than that, you may get unpredictable results including incorrect sorting. See

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

[Timo Jyrinki (timo-jyrinki)]

Fix released in Ubuntu 12.10 development version, 12.04 LTS users may upgrade from Shotwell developer foundation Yorba's PPA: https://launchpad.net/~yorba/+archive/ppa