From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6086 invoked from network); 18 Mar 2003 16:25:27 -0000 Received: from sunsite.dk (130.225.247.90) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 18 Mar 2003 16:25:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 25660 invoked by alias); 18 Mar 2003 16:25:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 18361 Received: (qmail 25653 invoked from network); 18 Mar 2003 16:25:13 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO sunsite.dk) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 18 Mar 2003 16:25:13 -0000 X-MessageWall-Score: 0 (sunsite.dk) Received: from [4.64.233.231] by sunsite.dk (MessageWall 1.0.8) with SMTP; 18 Mar 2003 16:25:12 -0000 Received: (from schaefer@localhost) by candle.brasslantern.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h2IGPAn28122; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 08:25:10 -0800 From: "Bart Schaefer" Message-Id: <1030318162510.ZM28121@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 16:25:10 +0000 In-Reply-To: <20030318031615.GG29480@acolyte.scowler.net> Comments: In reply to Clint Adams "[vincent@vinc17.org: Bug#185228: zsh: Incorrect filename generation with glob qualifier mh+]" (Mar 17, 10:16pm) References: <20030318031615.GG29480@acolyte.scowler.net> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (5.0.0 30July97) To: zsh-workers@sunsite.dk Subject: Re: [vincent@vinc17.org: Bug#185228: zsh: Incorrect filename generation with glob qualifier mh+] Cc: 185228-forwarded@bugs.debian.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mar 17, 10:16pm, Clint Adams wrote: } Subject: [vincent@vinc17.org: Bug#185228: zsh: Incorrect filename generati } } ----- Forwarded message from Vincent Lefevre ----- } } Using the glob qualifier mh+n selects files modified more than } n+1 hours instead of more than n hours ago. } } If this is a feature to make a partition with mh-n, mhn and mh+n, } then the wording in the manual should be changed Unless I'm mistaken, this is all for compatibility with the way that "find" defines +n, -n and n. If you ask me, it's always silly to define any meaning for "exactly ago"; it always means "during the that began before the current began" (but then for any significantly large unit you can get into arguments about what "began" means). But zsh did not invent the nomenclature.