"find" command used with "mtime" primary producing unexpected results

Originator:peter.hentrich
Number:rdar://12599218 Date Originated:30 October 2012
Status:Closed Resolved:
Product:OS X Product Version:10.5.8
Classification:No value Reproducible:Yes
 
Summary: I want to use the UNIX command "find" in the Terminal to list all files in the current directory that are older than 3600 seconds.  I want to use the "-mtime" primary to test for modification time/date.

Steps to Reproduce: Type the following in a Terminal window:
find . -mtime +3600s -maxdepth 1

Expected Results:
That it would list all files older than 3600 seconds (1 hour).

Actual Results:
It lists all files older than 3600 days.  It isn't acknowledging the unit "s" for seconds nor any other unit correctly such as "h" for hours, "d" for days.

Regression:

Notes:
find . -mtime +3600w -maxdepth 1

The above command lists all items in the directory.  It doesn't seem to recognise the "w" at all for "weeks".

Results  below:
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admin@imac1:~$ls -lat
total 112
-rw-------   1 admin  wheel    251 30 Oct 23:16 .lesshst
drwxr-xr-x  22 admin  wheel    748 30 Oct 22:12 bin
-rw-------   1 admin  staff  12950 30 Oct 18:11 .bash_history
drwxr-xr-x  19 admin  wheel    646 30 Oct 16:43 .
-rw-r--r--   1 admin  wheel     62 30 Oct 16:32 .vimrc
drwx------+ 11 admin  wheel    374 30 Oct 16:08 Downloads
-rw-r--r--@  1 admin  staff  21508 30 Oct 13:00 .DS_Store
drwx------+  9 admin  wheel    306 29 Oct 19:47 Documents
drwx------+  9 admin  wheel    306 29 Oct 15:55 Music
drwx------  31 admin  wheel   1054 28 Oct 13:19 .Trash
-rw-------   1 root   wheel   2522 26 Oct 01:27 .viminfo
drwx------+ 31 admin  wheel   1054 16 Oct 18:24 Library
drwxr-xr-x   6 root   admin    204 16 Oct 18:16 ..
drwxr-xr-x+  5 admin  wheel    170 28 Jan  2011 Public
-rw-------   1 admin  wheel      3 28 Jan  2011 .CFUserTextEncoding
drwx------+  3 admin  wheel    102 28 Jan  2011 Desktop
drwx------+  3 admin  wheel    102 28 Jan  2011 Movies
drwx------+  4 admin  wheel    136 28 Jan  2011 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x+  5 admin  wheel    170 28 Jan  2011 Sites
admin@imac1:~$find . -mtime +3600s -maxdepth 1
admin@imac1:~$find . -mtime +3600m -maxdepth 1
admin@imac1:~$find . -mtime +3600h -maxdepth 1
admin@imac1:~$find . -mtime +3600d -maxdepth 1
admin@imac1:~$find . -mtime +3600w -maxdepth 1
.
./.bash_history
./.CFUserTextEncoding
./.DS_Store
./.lesshst
./.Trash
./.viminfo
./.vimrc
./bin
./Desktop
./Documents
./Downloads
./Library
./Movies
./Music
./Pictures
./Public
./Sites
admin@imac1:~$find . -mtime +100s -maxdepth 1
./.CFUserTextEncoding
./Desktop
./Movies
./Pictures
./Public
./Sites
admin@imac1:~$find . -mtime +100 -maxdepth 1 
./.CFUserTextEncoding
./Desktop
./Movies
./Pictures
./Public
./Sites
admin@imac1:~$sw_vers -productVersion
10.5.8
admin@imac1:~$uname -a
Darwin imac1.local 9.8.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.8.0: Wed Jul 15 16:55:01 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1228.15.4~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
./Sites

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