I just got a question on date calculations from one of our Cobol programmers,
but its been a long time since I used the calendar / date intrinsics.
Basically, the programmer wants to display the current date in the format
mm/dd/yy and then do a calculation of the current date + nn days, then display
the revised date in the same format.

This is a work scheduling application that has been in production for some time,
and it failed in the Y2K (they just found out).  The process they used before
was rather unbelievable, they calculated the julian date and did all
manipulations without using any intrinsics.  It is quite hard to follow.  They
want to get it right this time, so any help would be appreciated.