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Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 14:32:57 +0200
From: Riccardo Torrini <riccardo@torrini.org>
To: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
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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?


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Riccardo.