ASLExpireTime Format?

Subject: ASLExpireTime Format?
From: Karl Moskowski <email@hidden>
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 09:24:12 -0500
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I'm using ASL for logging, and I'm trying to make the messages persist in the main database for at least 30 days. In Peter Hosey's excellent blog series on ASL, there's a description of an undocumented key "ASLExpireTime" to accomplish this.

I'm doing something like this: NSCalendarDate *ttl = [[NSCalendarDate date] dateByAddingYears:0 months:0 days:30 hours:0 minutes:0 seconds:0]; aslmsg msg = asl_new(ASL_TYPE_MSG); asl_set(msg, "ASLExpireTime", [[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%.0f", [ttl timeIntervalSince1970]] UTF8String]); asl_log(NULL, msg, level, "%s", [logMessage UTF8String]);

However, it doesn't seem to work. The log messages still get archived every Monday.

Looking over the blog again, there's an implication that "ASLExpireTime" isn't the Unix time (seconds since 1970, like ASL_KEY_TIME), but rather a duration from now. Is that true?

BTW, here's the blog, if anyone's interested:
<http://boredzo.org/blog/archives/2008-01-25/asl-undocumented-keys>

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Karl Moskowski <email@hidden>
Voodoo Ergonomics Inc. <http://voodooergonomics.com/>

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