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I am using a function which sets a cookie. This function allows the cookie name, the cookie value and an additional expiry date of the cookie to be passed into it. function setCookie(name, value, exdate) { var c_value = escape(value) + ((exdate === null || exdate === undefined) ? "" : "; expires=" + exdate); document.cookie = name + "=" + c_value; }; Usage: setCookie("my-cookie-name","my-value","Sun, 15 Jul 2012 00:00:01 GMT"); I have used the function with the date format above and believe it is cross browser compatible as I have tested if the cookie remains after closing various browsers and reopening them. I discovered that there were problems when using a format like "15 Jul 2012" . This format worked for me during development in Firefox, but other browsers only seemed to set the cookie as a session cookie. Should I stick to using just this format: "Sun, 15 Jul 2012 00:00:01 GMT" or are there other formats I could use for the expiry date that will work across the major browsers (IE 7-9, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari)?

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