For those using PHP as a CSS preprocessor, this snippet sets the headers and also enables gzipping.

CSS_headers_and_compression

<?php ob_start ("ob_gzhandler");
    header("Content-type: text/css; charset: UTF-8");
    header("Cache-Control: must-revalidate");
    $offset = 60 * 60 ;
    $ExpStr = "Expires: " .
    gmdate("D, d M Y H:i:s",
    time() + $offset) . " GMT";
    header($ExpStr);
?>