2010/1/2 Gilbert Sebenste <sebenste at weather.admin.niu.edu>: > Apparently not. On a command line, type: > date '+%G' Looks perfectly correct to me - from man strftime %G is replaced by a year as a decimal number with century. This year is the one that contains the greater part of the week (Monday as the first day of the week). Maybe you want %Y? %Y is replaced by the year with century as a decimal number. Ben