Using Time Maching by Soltion Soft Systems, doing a DISPLAY CURRENT-DATE, that I is what I get. Ron *-----------------------------------------------------------* * Ronald Darling, Data Processing Supervisor * * New Mexico Tumor Registry/Epidemiology and Cancer Control * * Univeristy of New Mexico Health Sciences Center * * 2325 Camino de Salud, NE * * Albuquerque, NM 87131-5306 * * [log in to unmask] * * (505) 272-8580 * *-----------------------------------------------------------* > > i have a question for cobol programmers will the special register > current-date be > as follows on jan 1, 2000 01/01/00 just want to make sure that the year > will be > set to double zeroes. can anyone let me know if my date will come out as > 01/01/00. > > thanks frank >