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10.5: Allow the system.log file to be rotated daily
Authored by: ghay on Sun, Dec 23 2007 at 2:11PM PST

Nope, no confusion. If you look at the plist, it is missing an hour key, so it is run every hour. The fault here is that newsyslog isn't clever enough to do it's thing unless it's near midnight.

Launchd is working as expected.