+.BR --newer [ XY "] " \fIreference
+Succeeds if timestamp \fIX\fR of the file being considered is newer
+than timestamp \fIY\fR of the file
+.IR reference .
+The letters \fIX\fR and \fIY\fR can be any of the following letters:
+
+.TS
+ll
+ll
+ll
+ll
+llw(2i).
+a The access time of the file \fIreference\fR
+b|B The birth time of the file \fIreference\fR
+c The inode status change time of \fIreference\fR
+m The modification time of the file \fIreference\fR
+t \fIreference\fR is interpreted directly as a time
+.TE
+
+Some combinations are invalid; for example, it is invalid for
+.I X
+to be
+.IR t .
+Specifying
+.B -newer
+is equivalent to
+.BR -newermm .
+When
+.IR reference
+is interpreted directly as a time, currently it must be in one of the
+following formats: "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S", "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M", "%Y-%m-%d",
+"%H:%M:%S", "%H:%M", to represent year, month, day, hour, minute, seconds,
+with unspecified times at the start of that minute or day, unspecified dates
+being "today", and "@%s" or "%s" the seconds since the Unix epoch (see
+.BR strftime (3)
+for details of the time formats). Otherwise, it will report an error.
+If you try to use the birth time of a reference file, and the birth
+time cannot be determined, a fatal error message results. If you
+specify a test which refers to the birth time of files being examined,
+this test will fail for any files where the birth time is unknown.
+.TP