Problems setting cookie duration less than 6 hours about flask-login HOT 5 CLOSED

Perhaps the problem is the delta between UTC and your machine's clock. Are you by any chance on the east coast?

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Yes I am. UTC is 5 hours ahead.
Do you know a way around this?

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I'm wondering how Flask is handling the expires parameter...perhaps that could be part of the problem.

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Thanks, I'll keep an eye out for this.
In the meantime, it doesn't hurt too much for cookies since their durations aren't likely to be so fine-grained (ie. weeks or months rather than hours).

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One tips. Keep everything in UTC to make your life easier. The machine which is configured to run the python application, configure it to UTC. When you receive a datetime object from a client convert this to UTC before doing anything. Likewise you might want to convert your UTC datetime objects to the user's local timezone as you send data to the user. Store everything else in UTC time.

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