There appears to be an issue with cookies on Windows Safari that expires at UTC time and not according to the time zone on your machine.
I tested my PHP code
setcookie("mycookie", $sample_session_variable, time()+10000,'/mydirectory/','mysite.com');
I verified that the cookie expires at the correct time for the following browsers
- Firefox 3.5
- Internet Explorer 8
- Safari (Apple OS X)
However, Safari 4 (Windows) have cookies are expiring at UTC time.
So if you have are using PHP cookies (or any other scripting language) and they don’t work in Safari, the cause may be the expiration date.
If you plan to have you cookies expiring after more that 24 hours, its not an issue. Its best to set the time() + value to 86400 at the very minimum. This is to ensure Safari (Win) users will have functioning cookies.
setcookie("mycookie", $sample_session_variable, time()+86400,'/mydirectory/','mysite.com');
