Why can't I read my cookie value? - html

Question

I am trying to do some stuff with cookies. For now i am just trying to read a cookie and display the value in a popup-box using alert(value).
The tutorial I am following is :
http://www.w3schools.com/js/tryit.asp?filename=tryjs_cookie_username
Somehow this doesn't work when I implement this into my web application. The cookie will be created, but the reading part somehow does not work. When I use Web Developer Toolbar, I can see that a cookie named 'language' is there.
This is the script block in my Index.aspx
function createCookie() {
var box = document.getElementById("language");
var value = box.options[box.selectedIndex].value;
var name = "language";
var days = 1;
if (days) {
var date = new Date();
date.setTime(date.getTime() + (days * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000));
var expires = "; expires=" + date.toGMTString();
} else var expires = "";
document.cookie = name + "=" + value + expires + ";path=/;";
document.cookie = 'language=en; expires=Thu, 2 Aug 2012 20:47:11 UTC; path=/'
window.location = 'http://localhost:57688';
}
function readLanguageCookie() {
var language = getCookie("language");
if (language != null && language != "") {
alert("Language is: " + language);
} else {
language = "en";
if (language != null && language != "") {
setCookie("language", language, 365);
}
}
}
function getCookie(c_name) {
var i, x, y, ARRcookies = document.cookie.split(";");
for (i = 0; i < ARRcookies.length; i++) {
x = ARRcookies[i].substr(0, ARRcookies[i].indexOf("="));
y = ARRcookies[i].substr(ARRcookies[i].indexOf("=") + 1);
x = x.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, "");
if (x == c_name) {
return unescape(y);
}
}
}
And this is how I try to execute the method
<form method="get" action="http://localhost:57688">
<label for="language">hjhj</label>
<select id="language" onchange="readLanguageCookie()">
<option value="en">English</option>
<option value="nl">Dutch</option>
</select>
</form>
Cookie details:
Name language
Value en
Host localhost
Path /
Secure No
Expires Thu, 02 Aug 2012 20:47:11 GMT
What am I doing wrong here?

Answer 1

May be the reason is hardcoded date?:
document.cookie = 'language=en; expires=Thu, 2 Aug 2012 20:47:11 UTC;