Package: findutils
Version: 4.4.2-4
Severity: important
>From the manpage:
-newerXY reference
...
... Time specifications are interpreted as for the argument
to the -d option of GNU date. ...
But:
iwj@OSSTEST:/home/osstest/pub/logs$ date
Thu May 14 10:21:56 UTC 2015
iwj@OSSTEST:/home/osstest/pub/logs$ find -name \*ts-host-install-twice.log
-newermt '16:18 EDT yesterday' -ls |grep 'May 13 16:45'
5345699 12 -rw-rw-r-- 1 iwj osstest 9756 May 13 16:45
./55661/test-amd64-i386-freebsd10-amd64/3.ts-host-install-twice.log
5253078 12 -rw-rw-r-- 1 iwj osstest 9640 May 13 16:45
./55662/test-amd64-i386-freebsd10-i386/3.ts-host-install-twice.log
5601470 12 -rw-rw-r-- 1 osstest osstest 10314 May 13 16:45
./55430/test-amd64-amd64-xl-qemut-win7-amd64/3.ts-host-install-twice.log
iwj@OSSTEST:/home/osstest/pub/logs$ date -d '16:18 EDT yesterday'
Wed May 13 20:18:00 UTC 2015
iwj@OSSTEST:/home/osstest/pub/logs$ date -d '16:18 EDT yesterday' +%s
1431548280
iwj@OSSTEST:/home/osstest/pub/logs$ find -name \*ts-host-install-twice.log
-newermt '@1431548280' -ls |grep 'May 13 16:45'
iwj@OSSTEST:/home/osstest/pub/logs$
Observe that:
* The three files found by the `grep' were modified earlier than the
specified time, as that time is interpreted by `date'.
* Getting date to print the time_t, and passing the time_t to find,
gives different answers. If the documentation is correct, that
ought never to be the case.
Sadly there doesn't seem to be a convenient way to get find to print
out exactly what it thought the date string meant.
Ian.
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