No, I don't make the account, it's just one that often exists on systems (and is set up for the purpose of circumventing these sign ins.) My logs show the Times put 4 cookies on my machine when I read that article. 1 expired after 30 minutes, 1 expires after 90 days, and the other two don't expire for 10 years. So I guess, if you go back right away (maybe within 30 minutes) you don't have to sign in again. (By the way, the digitalmediatree cookie lasts about 90 days. Can't remember why I picked that number.) If you look at your cookie file you can see this info, although the times are given in standard Unix time, so that makes it a little strange. Right now the time is 958520496. That's the number of seconds having elapsed in the Unix epoch - since Jan. 1 1970. The roll over to 10 digits is a mini-Y2K like concern for Unix systems.
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- jim 5-17-2000 12:47 am