Date outputs from 'at' are mandated as date +"%a %b %e %T %Y" (i.e. "Wed Aug 14 20:05:13 1996") by the Posix.2a draft I have, which is the date used in the upcoming release 3.0 of at(1). Yep, that's pretty broken. If anybody has later, better news, please let me know. -- Thomas Koenig, Thomas.Koenig@ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de, ig25@dkauni2.bitnet. The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram.