ASP.NET Roles cookie expiration date easter egg?
Just stumbled upon this today while spelunking the code for ASP.NET Membership & Roles. The DeleteCookie() method on the Roles provider API does a standard call to remove the cookie, but afterwards writes out a new, expired cookie just to make sure.
While perusing with Reflector, I noticed something odd thing about the expired cookie it writes out. The expiration date is set to 10/12/1999 rather than the expected DateTime.MinValue. So, I'm just curious about the significance of that date. A quick Live.com or Google search doesnt seem to reveal anything interesting.
Maybe the coder was in trouble with the wife about forgetting their anniversary, so he immortalized it in code - who knows.. :)