Re: [PHP4BETA] FW: Y2K compliance flag
| From: | Rasmus Lerdorf | Date: | Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: [PHP4BETA] FW: Y2K compliance flag | ||
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> In order to be compatible with the largest amount of browsers cookies are
> sent as two digits and not four by default. Apparently recent netscape and
> ie browsers won't die on the 1/1/2000 because of this but acknowledge that
> 00 is the year 2000.
Not just recent. All known browsers handle 2-digit years in cookies
appropriately. However, not all known browsers handle 4-digit years.
Sort of a reverse Y2K problem.
-Rasmus