Re: Why does session.gc_maxlifetime default to 1440 seconds?

On 31 January 2015 at 11:12, Bas van Beek <bas@tobin.nl> wrote: > > Well the number 1440 itself is not so arbitrary as it's the amount of minutes in a day. > Maybe that's why the number popped up. > > In the end 24 minutes does seem to be fine for the majority of people and with people that care > about session duration it's really easy to update :) > I like the idea of this being a 15+ year old "bug" where minutes were used instead of seconds :) Initial commits don't really give much of a hint to the thinking behind it either it seems. http://svn.php.net/viewvc/archived/php4.fubar/trunk/ext/session/session.c?r1=9519&r2=9520&pathrev=9520& http://svn.php.net/viewvc/archived/php4.fubar/trunk/php.ini-dist?r1=10922&r2=10923&pathrev=10923& /cc sas