setcookie()

[tresloukadu]

I am getting the following error when trying to log in: 

Warning: setcookie() expects parameter 3 to be long, string given in /home/helpdesk/public_html/includes/cookie.inc.php on line 8 

The cookie.inc.php is actually quite a small file and I would not think that it would cause me much grief, but it is. Below is the actual code for the cookie generation script: 

<?php 
// Modified by Andrew Walker (ajwalker@home.com) 
$time = mktime()+$g_cookietimeout; 
$date = date("l, d-M-y H:i:s", ($time)); 

if (isset($authentication)) { 
setcookie("status", $status, $date); 
setcookie("user", $user, $date); 
setcookie("group", $group, $date); 
setcookie("authentication", $authentication, $date); 
setcookie("laston", $laston, $date); 
} 
else { 
setcookie("status", "Logged In", $date); 
setcookie("user", $txtUsername, $date); 
setcookie("group", $row[4], $date); 
setcookie("authentication", "YES", $date); 
setcookie("laston", $row[6], $date); 
} 
?> 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[tresloukadu]

the following code: $date = date($time); 

does not seem  success on IE5.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.