Set Cookies - 3rd variable

[Anon]

Recently my setcookies function stopped working. I have written my server and they told me that several people were having problems since they update PHP. It seems to be a problem with the third variable (time)

My original code was:
setcookie("a1", $a1,time()+1200);

It works when I remove the third variable time()+1200.

For example: setcookie ("TestCookie", "Test Value");

Has anyone had this problem recently, and if so how was it resolved. I already tried using the following without any luck:
$settime=time()+1200;
setcookie ("TestCookie", "Test Value", $settime);

[Anon]

I once had this problem due to server time. They were on GMT and I was on EST (a difference of 5 hours, or 18,000 secs. So doing the time()+1200 thingy didn't accomplish a thing, as the cookie expired before it was even set.

Weird stuff, but quite predictable.