At 6:26 PM -0400 6/23/06, Tom Ray [Lists] wrote:
>I've run into something rather odd with cookies today. I'm working with this 
>admin section on a site and I'm setting a cookie that is supposed to be good 
>for one hour. So in the cookie I have time()+3600 and all was well or that was 
>until someone fired up IE. It seems that IE refused to set the cookie. After 
>much swearing at IE, I found that if I set it to time()+7200 the cookie would 
>be set.
>
>Not if that wasn't odd enough, in Firefox if I logged in at 6PM the cookie 
>said it would expire at 8PM which is correct. However, when I logged in via IE 
>at 6PM it said the cookie would expire at 23:00 hours (11PM for those who 
>don't know)...so my question is...why is this happening and why does IE do 
>this? I checked in Opera, Mozilla and Netscape and they all work the same as 
>Firefox.....

You answered the question yourself, you're testing IE. It sounds like M$ is 
trying to make time to adapt to their standard.

But, you're not alone -- try Google with "IE cookies expiration"

tedd
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