<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>It isn't the timezones.</div><div><br></div><div>Sessions are set to die if not used, which is controlled by session entropy (php ini)</div><div><br></div><div>If the value for this is high then your session may be very short lived.</div><div><br></div><div>The ID is set by the server, and refreshing the page may bring it back.</div><div><br></div><div>You don't loose ownership - you loose the session ID, and with that gone the server doesn't know who you are so it blocks you</div><div><br>On 4 May 2013, at 12:31, "Thomas Rochford" <<a href="mailto:thomas.rochford@jiscadvance.ac.uk">thomas.rochford@jiscadvance.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">Hi Again,<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I’m not sure where the session IDs are being set and how they are managed but – because my server is in Germany and I’m in the UK there may be a problem with the time on them. I’ve now found that I lose ‘ownership’ of my LOs periodically and I get errors about the Session Id not being set, but then they suddenly return without any intervention on my part.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">I’ve turned on ‘$development=true’ and, interestingly, get the following when I try to login:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Strict Standards</b>: date(): It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'Europe/Berlin' for 'CEST/2.0/DST' instead in <b>/homepages/26/d187831202/htdocs/tcrochford/toolkits/website_code/php/user_library.php</b> on line <b>209<o:p></o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><o:p> </o:p></b></p><p class="MsoNormal">Maybe this needs looking into? With Xerte increasing in popularity I can easily foresee people working on servers in different timezones.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Kindest Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Thomas<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:red;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">==========================================================<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Thomas Rochford | e-Learning Advisor | Jisc RSC Eastern<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Tel: 01223 564749 | Mobile: 07500 669002 | Skype: cambridge.serendipity<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Email: <a href="mailto:thomas.rochford@jiscadvance.ac.uk"><span style="color:blue">thomas.rochford@jiscadvance.ac.uk</span></a> | Web: <a href="http://www.jiscrsc.ac.uk/eastern"><span style="color:blue">http://www.jiscrsc.ac.uk/eastern</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Cambridge Serendipity, 35 Gough Way, Cambridge, CB3 9LN<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">For the full range of RSC UK events, resources and blog, visit <a href="http://www.jiscrsc.ac.uk/"><span style="color:blue">http://www.jiscrsc.ac.uk</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div>
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