[bug #23065] -daystart measures from start of tomorrow - manual incorrect

[Julien Levi]

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                 Summary: -daystart measures from start of tomorrow - manual
incorrect
                 Project: findutils
            Submitted by: jlevi
            Submitted on: Saturday 26/04/08 at 12:25
                Category: find
                Severity: 3 - Normal
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Details:

The find manual states that the "-daystart" option causes find to measure
relative times from the start of "today" i.e if today is 1st January 2008 it
would measure from "00:00:00 01/01/2008"

In actual fact, with the -daystart option find measures from the start of
tomorrow i.e if today is 1st January 2008, it measures from "00:00:00
02/01/2008"

Example

Create a file with time 10 minutes from end of today:

$ touch -d 'today 23:50' testfile

Find files more than 5 minutes older than "daystart":

$ find ./testfile -daystart -mmin +5
./testfile

According to the manual the above command should not find "testfile". The
manual needs updating with the correct behaviour of this command.




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