Automator does not find items accurately using date stamps

Greetings
I am trying to write a simple workflow using Automator. Just check the creation/modification date of some files, and then do some work with them.
It does not do the job right.
If I ask for the files created or modified today, it finds well the files it has to find.
But if I ask automator to find files created or modified last n days or weeks, it fails to select the proper files.
Even worse, if I order it to select files, say, modified before july AND after august, it select files, when it's impossible a file can be last modified, created or whatever according that clausule.
My system is an iMac bought on summer of 2011, with Mountain Lion 10,8,1 (I'll upgrade next week, after backing up all my stuff) and catalan language. I am stating that last bit because I wonder if there's an issue with the day/month/year date format we use around here, instead of month/day/year
TIA

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