Google News locations

How does google news pull location?

[scripter]

A site that I administer is listed on google news and although I am based in and post news articles in our tech offices in Atlanta the Google News system somehow knows this and lists the articles on the google news page as GA and not USA, or NY (where out head office is located.

example:
Domain.com (press release), GA - 41 minutes ago

we want it to say:
Domain.com (press release), NY - 41 minutes ago

Is there a special meta tag or something that we can change to make this "location" more accurate?

I have emailed google news a few days ago but received no responce. I figured some of the specialists here could shed some light.

Regards.

[scripter]

googleguy... someone anyone... lol

[dwilson]

What does the whois information for your domain say? And where is the server located?

These are just guesses, but I would start with them.

[scripter]

No I have been trying to figure this out and I do not think it has anything to do with that.
I am pretty sure thats not it.

I noticed that in the past our news was posted with the date in the following format:

Thu, April 22nd, 2004. 01:46 pm

In the above format google news listed the location as
Domain.com (press release), (United States) - 41 minutes ago

We changed the date coding in our news php file to display the date as follows:

Thursday - April 22, 2004

With the above date mathod google somehow knows where this is being posted and lists the state.

HOW? And how can we set the location we would like google to display. The folks at google still have not replied with an answer. I will post it if they do but does anyone hav a clue?