Can find's -newermt accept epoch time?

Question

I seek to find files made after a specific time similar to how this command does it:

find . -type f -newermt '1/30/2017 0:00:00'

except instead of a date, and time, string, I need the time stamp to be in epoch time as read from the EPOCHSECONDS system variable. Can this be done? Or will it be necessary to convert EPOCHSECONDS to a date and time string?

I am asking because in a shell script I need to set a variable value equal to EPOCHSECONDS, do some commands that will make changes to unknown files, and then use the find command to see what files those commands changed.

Answer 1

Yes it can.

The -newerXY entry of man find tells us that

Time specifications are interpreted as for the  argument
to  the -d option of GNU date.

and from the info 'date input formats' node:

29.9 Seconds since the Epoch

If you precede a number with ‘@’, it represents an internal timestamp as a count of seconds. The number can contain an internal decimal point (either ‘.’ or ‘,’); any excess precision not supported by the internal representation is truncated toward minus infinity. Such a number cannot be combined with any other date item, as it specifies a complete timestamp.

So for example

find . -type f -newermt @1485752400

or

secs=$(date +%s -d '1/30/2017 0:00:00')
find . -type f -newermt "@$secs"