Unix epoch changed?

[Jan Schlesner]

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". ;-)
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Jan
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