>
> Since nobody complained about the date format, I just
> regenerated all of the archives setting the Last-Modified
> date ... hopefully this will reduce the pounding googlebot is
> doing against the archives ...
>
as it turns out, lwp-request is lying about the headers unless you use -mHEAD :(
I suggest changing the meta tag to a <? header("Last-Modified: $date"); ?>
tho this would have to be positioned at the very top of each file.
... John