note 74613 deleted from function.setcookie by danbrown

Note Submitter: Wernight ---- The timeout is tricky as far as I read it depends on the time synchronization between the server and the client. If the GMT time is different (for example your computer is 5 min forward from the server time, don't know about the daylight saving problem) then the cookie timeout if affected by this. Since I didn't very this information don't take it as factual but as a possible reason for problem (like the one below about IE). The second conclusion is to use big values. For small values use something else (sessions, database...).