Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 22:14:52 +0200 From: Jan Schlesner <schlesner@physik.TU-Berlin.DE> To: Riccardo Torrini <riccardo@torrini.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unix epoch changed? Message-ID: <20030414201452.GA37232@physik.TU-Berlin.DE> In-Reply-To: <20030414074154.GG3965@trudy.torrini.home> References: <200304091025.LAA13913@sorley.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <20030409123257.GA3598@trudy.torrini.home> <20030413122948.GA42211@physik.TU-Berlin.DE> <20030414074154.GG3965@trudy.torrini.home>
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On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 09:41:54AM +0200, Riccardo Torrini wrote: > On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 02:29:48PM +0200, Jan Schlesner wrote: > > >> Ok, I remember wrong. But the question remain: why find -mtime -2 > >> show a file from 1906 (near 100 year ago) instead of 2 days old? > > > Try to use "-mtime 2" instead of "-mtime -2". ;-) > > ^ ^^ > > It's not the same: positive_2 match file that are exactly 2 day old > but where negative_2 match file old from 0 upto 2 day. I need the > second :-( And is documented, not a my invention... Sorry, that was my faut. But the behavior looks like, that the binary representation of -2 is interpreted as a nosign number. Jan -- [ gpg key: http://wwwds.physik.tu-berlin.de/~jan/jschlesn.gpg ] [ key fingerprint: 4236 3497 C4CF 4F3A 274F B6E2 C4F6 B639 1DF4 CF0A ] -- It's better to reign in hell, than to serve in heaven...
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