diff --git a/server/eventWorld.js b/server/eventWorld.js
index 1a55c87..c598108 100644
--- a/server/eventWorld.js
+++ b/server/eventWorld.js
@@ -324,11 +324,19 @@ async function place(server, send, body, what) {
   }
 
   const placed = Array.isArray(data.placed) ? data.placed : []
+  // A zone's deadline, as core's `until` (W1, PLAN_LAST_FIXES). The game erases
+  // the zone `holdMs` after it placed it; reckoned from the answer, on this
+  // clock, it lands a round trip after the game's, never before. With it core's
+  // reconcile files a zone gone past its deadline as expired instead of
+  // orphaned, which a reconnect used to show five seconds before the game's own
+  // `world.expired` arrived. Crates and NPCs have no deadline and send none.
+  const until = Number(body.holdMs) > 0 ? new Date(Date.now() + Number(body.holdMs)).toISOString() : null
   return {
     ok: true,
     resources: placed.map((row) => ({
       kind: OWNED_KIND,
       ref: refOf(server.id, row.id),
+      ...(until ? { until } : {}),
       payload: {
         serverId: server.id,
         what: row.kind,
diff --git a/server/test/world.test.js b/server/test/world.test.js
index 5517033..84c431c 100644
--- a/server/test/world.test.js
+++ b/server/test/world.test.js
@@ -178,10 +178,13 @@ test('a zone crosses with its key, its duration, and the monument without the se
     server: 'main',
     body: { runId: '7', key: 'k1', monument: 'airfield_1', offsetX: 0, offsetZ: -20, radius: 40, holdMs: 5400000, name: 'Brawl' },
   })
-  // The ref carries the server: revert and reconcile are handed no params.
-  assert.deepStrictEqual(result.resources, [
-    { kind: 'world', ref: 'main:rg-7-1-1', payload: { serverId: 'main', what: 'zone', name: 'Z' } },
-  ])
+  // The ref carries the server: revert and reconcile are handed no params. The
+  // zone's deadline rides as `until` (W1); zones.test.js checks its value.
+  const [resource] = result.resources
+  assert.strictEqual(typeof resource.until, 'string')
+  const { until, ...rest } = resource
+  assert.deepStrictEqual(rest, { kind: 'world', ref: 'main:rg-7-1-1', payload: { serverId: 'main', what: 'zone', name: 'Z' } })
+  assert.strictEqual(result.resources.length, 1)
 })
 
 test('one resource per thing placed, and a repeated key is said to be one', async (t) => {
diff --git a/server/test/zones.test.js b/server/test/zones.test.js
index c3e1c9c..e9d5298 100644
--- a/server/test/zones.test.js
+++ b/server/test/zones.test.js
@@ -232,6 +232,29 @@ test('a zone crosses with its flags, settings, messages in the chat voice, and i
   })
 })
 
+test('a zone resource carries its deadline as until, a crate none (W1)', async (t) => {
+  // Core's reconcile reads `until`: a zone gone past it is expired, not
+  // orphaned. Reckoned from the answer, so it never falls before the game's own.
+  stubZones(t)
+  stubWorld(t)
+  const before = Date.now()
+  const result = await action('rust.zone.open').perform({
+    runId: 7, idempotencyKey: 'k', params: { monument: 'main/a', radius: 40, minutes: 30 },
+  })
+  assert.strictEqual(result.ok, true, result.error)
+  const until = Date.parse(result.resources[0].until)
+  assert.ok(until >= before + 1800000 && until <= Date.now() + 1800000, result.resources[0].until)
+
+  const saved = client.worldPlace
+  client.worldPlace = async () => ({ ok: true, status: 'ok', data: { kind: 'world.ok', placed: [{ id: 'rg-7-1-2', kind: 'crate' }] } })
+  t.after(() => { client.worldPlace = saved })
+  const crate = await action('rust.crate.place').perform({
+    runId: 7, idempotencyKey: 'k2', params: { monument: 'main/a', prefab: 'crate.elite', count: 1 },
+  })
+  assert.strictEqual(crate.ok, true, crate.error)
+  assert.strictEqual('until' in crate.resources[0], false)
+})
+
 test('a dome with its stack left blank stacks 3 spheres (D326)', async (t) => {
   stubZones(t, { servers: [server('main', { domes: PATCHED })] })
   const calls = stubWorld(t)