The date in the archives should be the date in the headers, but it 
would have to be distributed after midnight server time in order to 
make it into the January archives. You could add a Prime= setting to 
the list so the mail does not get distributed till after midnight. 

Francoise

On 1 Jan 2007 at 12:54, Bill Schipper wrote:

> Hi, and a happy new year to everyone.
> 
> I run a list distributed from WVU.EDU which is located in the Eastern 
> Time Zone.    Every year at 12:01 a.m. I send a new year's greeting 
> to all the subscribers.   This message is sent from a mail server in 
> Newfoundland (EST + 1.5 hours).   The message always has the correct 
> date in the "Date: " header.   However, it gets distributed at 10:32 
> p.m. EST.   Is there a way to ensure that the date the ends up in the 
> archives is 01/01/20** and, more importantly, that the time ends up 
> showing as midnight +, instead of what it does now?
> 
> It appears that the archive ends up showing the actual date and time 
> that listserv distributes the message, and so there is probably 
> little or nothing I can do, short of distributing the list from a 
> Newfoundland server.    Or, since the message gets sent out 
> automatically with crontab, setting it to go out at 1:30 a.m., in 
> order to get a midnight date stamp.    But there's no harm in asking.
> 
> Bill

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