mandiant / mandiant/macos-UnifiedLogs

Parsing of Unified logs result in wrong time format

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Description

When parsing iOS 17.3 unified logs the results in the following time format:

"time":1.7223701282900093e+18

expected:

"time":1722370128290009375

Should have a PR I can submit soon. Need additional testing to validate this is an issue across other datasets.

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Start by locating the unified-log parser's time conversion and compare its output with the reported iOS 17.3 value. Validate the expected integer representation across additional datasets, then add or update tests showing the corrected format.

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Tech stack
rust
Domain
reverse-engineering
Issue type
Bug
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3/5
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1-2 days
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