ken wrote:
To pick today's emails, one might try `pick -after yesterday' or the
equivalent `pick -after -1', but this seems to mean `within the last 24
hours'.
Yeah, those things (and in fact anything where you only specify a date and
not a time) uses the current time instead of midnight. Which is odd if
you don't know about it.
(`pick -not -before today' I investigated only a little.) It
seems
pick -after '08 Apr 2015 00:00:00 +0100'
is what's needed to get today's emails, with a similar incantation for
yesterday's. I can script this, but I think the current behaviour isn't
the most useful? find(1) has a -daystart option for a similar issue.
My find(1) lacks a -daystart option, so I do not know exactly what it
does. Considering this is a behavior change, I am interested in what others
think about this.
from my "man find":
-daystart
Measure times (for -amin, -atime, -cmin, -ctime, -mmin, and
-mtime) from the beginning of today rather than from 24 hours
ago. This option only affects tests which appear later on the
command line.
i assume ralph wasn't suggesting changing current behavior. adding an
option seems reasonable enough (and useful).
paul
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