How are you making your cookies? The CGI.pm module that comes with Perl lets you specify a time offset with the cookie. You don't need to worry about dates and times. Indeed, the example in CGI.pm uses a cookie set one hour into the future (that's the '+1h' thing). 

$cookie = $query->cookie(-name=>'sessionID',
    -value=>'xyzzy',
    -expires=>'+1h',
    -path=>'/cgi-bin/database',
    -domain=>'.capricorn.org',
    -secure=>1);

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Update the cookie each time you need to and let CGI.pm think about the rest.

However, you can still use any module you like: just because you can't install them on the server doesn't mean you can't use them locally to test your stuff. To make sure the cookie is working like you want it to, you could use LWP or WWW::Mechanize to test it. You don't need to use those from the server (unless there is some weird policy in place).

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brian d foy <bdfoy@cpan.org>

In reply to Re: Modifying cookie expire date by brian_d_foy
in thread Modifying cookie expire date by mellin

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