Smart album date range broken?

With earlier versions of iPhoto I've set up smart albums for date ranges, and then exported everything in the smart albums for archiving.  When I upgraded to Mavericks and iPhoto 9.5.1, several (but not all) of these appeared as empty.  I didn't worry about past albums too much since they've already been archived, and set up a new one from 1.1.2013 to 25.12.2013.  It worked OK at the time, but looking at it again today, it is also empty.  If I right-click, the "Edit Smart Album" option is greyed out.  But under "View | Smart Album Info", I see that the starting date is 1.1.0013.  I tried changing it to 2013, but the album remains empty, and when I look at info again, it has reverted to 1.1.0013.
Anyone else seeing something like this?  Any ideas what might be going on?
Thanks for any help.

Option 1
Back Up and try rebuild the library: hold down the command and option (or alt) keys while launching iPhoto. Use the resulting dialogue to rebuild. Choose to Repair Database. If that doesn't help, then try again, this time using Rebuild Database.
If that fails:
Option 2
Download iPhoto Library Manager and use its rebuild function. (In early versions of Library Manager it's the File -> Rebuild command. In later versions it's under the Library menu.)
This will create an entirely new library. It will then copy (or try to) your photos and all the associated metadata and versions to this new Library, and arrange it as close as it can to what you had in the damaged Library. It does this based on information it finds in the iPhoto sharing mechanism - but that means that things not shared won't be there, so no slideshows, books or calendars, for instance - but it should get all your events, albums and keywords, faces and places back.
Because this process creates an entirely new library and leaves your old one untouched, it is non-destructive, and if you're not happy with the results you can simply return to your old one.  
Regards
TD

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