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 :) > Op 31 jan. 2015, om 11:45 heeft Markus Amalthea Magnuson > <markus.magnu...@gmail.com> het volgende geschreven: > > Hey Yasuo, > > Yes, there can surely be no other reason for the existence of the value, > than that someone wrote it :) > > I think what I'm interested in is the reasoning behind it, since it seems > so arbitrary. It's not 20 or 30 minuts, for example. > > I have tried emailing the author a long time ago but never received a reply. > > On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 12:54 AM, Yasuo Ohgaki <yohg...@ohgaki.net> wrote: > >> Hi Markus, >> >> On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 4:02 AM, Markus Amalthea Magnuson < >> markus.magnu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I've been trying to figure out the design decision behind why the default >>> value of session.gc_maxlifetime is 1440 seconds (24 minutes)? >>> >>> Does anyone know or have any good sources? >>> >> >> Because the author set this value, I think. >> It was 1440 since session module is introduced, IIRC. >> >> I think 1440 is reasonable value for many applications. >> >> Regards, >> >> -- >> Yasuo Ohgaki >> yohg...@ohgaki.net >> -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
