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Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 11:24:28 +0000
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To: Bas van Beek <bas@tobin.nl>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Why does session.gc_maxlifetime default to 1440 seconds?
From: leight@gmail.com (Leigh)

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