Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 14:32:57 +0200 From: Riccardo Torrini <riccardo@torrini.org> To: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Unix epoch changed? Message-ID: <20030409123257.GA3598@trudy.torrini.home> In-Reply-To: <200304091025.LAA13913@sorley.cogsci.ed.ac.uk> References: <200304091025.LAA13913@sorley.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? -- Riccardo.
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