Version: 1.5.0 (using Devel) OS: Linux When I open an album property and try to set the album date to a mean date of all picture inside and picture are before 1970 I always obtain the date: 07/02/2106 If I try to set the album date by clicking on the most recent or the older, the date is setted right If I try to set the date by clicking on the mean date and picture inside is from 1970 and above, the date is set roght Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1 create an album 2 put a picture with date before 1970 (ie 01/01/1969) 3 open the album property 4 set the date by clicking on the mean date 5 look at the 07/02/2106 date obtained Actual Results: 07/02/2106 is obtained Expected Results: 01/01/1969 should be obtained
Interesting problem. Obviously, the Unix Epoch does have its weaknesses ;-) Can you provide such a picture for testing? I would like to see where it works and where things break.
Seems to be an variable overflow/negative sign fault
Created attachment 53430 [details] Picture tagged from 1910-05-28
SVN commit 1217733 by mwiesweg: Do not use time_t when calculating average date, that works only on a limited scale. Use QDate's Julian Day to get a much wider range. BUG: 256789 M +2 -1 NEWS M +10 -21 libs/database/albumdb.cpp WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1217733