Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 14:29:48 +0200 From: Jan Schlesner <schlesner@physik.TU-Berlin.DE> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unix epoch changed? Message-ID: <20030413122948.GA42211@physik.TU-Berlin.DE> In-Reply-To: <20030409123257.GA3598@trudy.torrini.home> References: <200304091025.LAA13913@sorley.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> <20030409123257.GA3598@trudy.torrini.home>
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Hi.
On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 02:32:57PM +0200, Riccardo Torrini wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 11:25:00AM +0100, Richard Tobin wrote:
>
> >> I'm trying to figure how a file can have a date _before_ unix epoch.
>
> > It's a signed value.
> > It runs from -2^31 (13 Dec 1901) to 2^31-1 (19 Jan 2038) with 0
> > (1 Jan 1970) in the middle.
>
> 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". ;-)
^ ^^
Jan
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