Using -mtime in File::Find::Rule seems to fail on Windows

neniro has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'd like to find all the *.doc files created (or at least modified) in the last 24 hours. The following snippet works fine unless I use mtime( -1 ) - I got an empty resultset. Is this a Windows-related problem, or am I doing something wrong?

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use Data::Dumper;
use Date::Calc qw/ Time_to_Date /;
use File::Find::Rule;

my @files = File::Find::Rule->file()
                            ->name( '*.doc' )
                            ->mtime( -1 )
                            ->in( 'D:/Dokumentation/' );

@files = map {
  {
    name => $_,
    #modified => [Time_to_Date((stat($_))[9])],
    size => (stat($_))[7]
  }
} @files;

print Dumper \@files;
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neniro

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Re: Using -mtime in File::Find::Rule seems to fail on Windows by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jul 20, 2004 at 13:58 UTC
The timestamps return by -M, -C & -A are relative to the start of the program. So to find those less than 24 hours old you need to specify 1, not -1; that would be in the future. Examine what is said, not who speaks. "Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham "Think for yourself!" - Abigail "Memory, processor, disk in that order on the hardware side. Algorithm, algoritm, algorithm on the code side." - tachyon	[reply]
Re^2: Using -mtime in File::Find::Rule seems to fail on Windows by neniro (Priest) on Jul 20, 2004 at 14:04 UTC
Of course I tried this before with the same effect. I tried '-1' because it's the way unix-find finds files modified between the last 24 hours. '1' means exactly 24 hours.	[reply]
Re^3: Using -mtime in File::Find::Rule seems to fail on Windows by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Jul 20, 2004 at 14:10 UTC
Sorry. I'm not a F::F::R user. However a quick look at the docs suggests that `->mtime( '<= 1 ' )` [download] should do the trick. Examine what is said, not who speaks. "Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham "Think for yourself!" - Abigail "Memory, processor, disk in that order on the hardware side. Algorithm, algoritm, algorithm on the code side." - tachyon	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: Using -mtime in File::Find::Rule seems to fail on Windows by neniro (Priest) on Jul 20, 2004 at 14:24 UTC