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 ....normal behavior is to display the date/time that the SAS session started.   Thanks for confirming.   Interesting - IF I specify the output rtf (see below), it always gives same behaviour I've reported (session start time).  IF I leave the output file OPEN in an editor, run same code again, SAS spawns a second .rtf (sasrtf.rtf - likely a default?), which  EACH time the job runs, gets the CURRENT TIME inserted !   Wild.   Thanks all, I'll work with what I've learned.     ods rtf file = "C:\temp\test.rtf" sasdate style = dove bodytitle startpage = no; title "Title - top of each output set"; ods noptitle; ods rtf startpage=now; data temp; set sashelp.bei; keep trees; run; proc freq data = temp; title2 "more details added to title1"; run; ods rtf close; run;      ... View more