diff --git a/CSharpTranslator/antlr2/Translator/JavaPrettyPrinter.g b/CSharpTranslator/antlr2/Translator/JavaPrettyPrinter.g
index feaa5b3..24a7bf5 100644
--- a/CSharpTranslator/antlr2/Translator/JavaPrettyPrinter.g
+++ b/CSharpTranslator/antlr2/Translator/JavaPrettyPrinter.g
@@ -93,7 +93,8 @@ options {
     
     private void PrintNL(TextWriter w)
     {
-		w.Write("\n");	// Should we take newline from environment?
+		w.Write("\n");            // Should we be switching to use Environment.NewLine?
+		//w.Write(Environment.NewLine);
 		if (doIndent) indented = false;
     }
     
@@ -145,6 +146,35 @@ options {
 		}
     }
     
+    /// <summary>
+	/// Prints standard text at the top of each output file
+	/// </summary>
+	/// <param name="w">The output destination.</param>
+	/// <param name="emitDate">Emit Translation Date as part of prelude.</param>
+    private void PrintFilePrelude(TextWriter w, Boolean emitDate)
+    {
+		String stdPrelude = @"
+//
+//
+// This file was translated from C# to Java by CS2J (http://www.cs2j.com).
+//
+// This code is to be used for evaluation of the CS2J tool ONLY.
+//
+// For more information about CS2J please contact cs2jcontact@scorm.com
+//
+";
+
+        if (emitDate) {
+	        //stdPrelude += "// Translated: " + DateTime.Now.ToString("s") + Environment.NewLine + 
+	        //              "//" + Environment.NewLine; 
+	   
+		    stdPrelude += "// Translated: " + DateTime.Now.ToString("s") + "\n//\n" ;   // Switch to Environment.NewLine??
+		}
+		stdPrelude += "\n";
+		w.Write(stdPrelude);
+	}
+	
+	
     // keving:  Found this precedence table on the ANTLR site.
     
     /** Encodes precedence of various operators; indexed by token type.
@@ -236,8 +266,8 @@ options {
 
 
 
-compilationUnit [TextWriter w, XmlTextWriter enumXmlWriter, TokenStreamHiddenTokenFilter f]
- { filter = f; this.enumXmlWriter = enumXmlWriter; }
+compilationUnit [TextWriter w, XmlTextWriter enumXmlWriter, TokenStreamHiddenTokenFilter f, Boolean emitDate]
+ { filter = f; this.enumXmlWriter = enumXmlWriter; PrintFilePrelude(w, emitDate); }
 	:	#( COMPILATION_UNIT 
 			packageDefinition[w]
 			useDefinitions[TextWriter.Null]    // No output for uses
diff --git a/CSharpTranslator/antlr2/Translator/Main.cs b/CSharpTranslator/antlr2/Translator/Main.cs
index 3f07b02..044e855 100644
--- a/CSharpTranslator/antlr2/Translator/Main.cs
+++ b/CSharpTranslator/antlr2/Translator/Main.cs
@@ -93,8 +93,11 @@ namespace RusticiSoftware.Translator
         internal static DirectoryHT appEnv = new DirectoryHT(null);
         internal static XmlTextWriter enumXmlWriter;
         internal static string xmldumpDir = Path.Combine(".", "tmpXMLs");
+        internal static Boolean emitTranslationDate = true;
+        
         internal static int verbosity = 0;
 
+
         internal static TokenStreamHiddenTokenFilter filter;
 
 
@@ -111,6 +114,7 @@ namespace RusticiSoftware.Translator
             Console.Out.WriteLine("Usage: " + Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(System.Environment.GetCommandLineArgs()[0]));
             Console.Out.WriteLine(" [-help]                                                                     (this usage message)");
             Console.Out.WriteLine(" [-v]                                                                        (be [somewhat more] verbose, repeat for more verbosity)");
+            Console.Out.WriteLine(" [-markDate <true|false>]                                                    (emit date of Translation into Java Source, default:true)");
             Console.Out.WriteLine(" [-showtokens]                                                               (the lexer prints the tokenized input to the console)");
             Console.Out.WriteLine(" [-showtree][-showcsharp] [-showjavasyntax] [-showjava]                      (show parse tree at various stages of the translation)");
             Console.Out.WriteLine(" [-dumpxml] [-xmldir <directory to dump xml database>]                       (dump the translation repository as xml files)");
@@ -190,6 +194,11 @@ namespace RusticiSoftware.Translator
                             i++;
                             outDir = args[i];
                         }
+                        else if (args[i].ToLower().Equals("-markdate") && i < (args.Length - 1))
+                        {
+                            i++;
+                            emitTranslationDate = !(args[i].ToLower().Equals("false"));
+                        }
                         else if (args[i].ToLower().Equals("-dumpenums") && i < (args.Length - 1))
                         {
                             i++;
@@ -555,7 +564,7 @@ namespace RusticiSoftware.Translator
                     FileInfo outF = new FileInfo(fName);
                     StreamWriter w = new StreamWriter(outF.Create());
                     JavaPrettyPrinter writer = new JavaPrettyPrinter();
-                    writer.compilationUnit(netTx.getAST(), w, enumXmlWriter, filter);
+                    writer.compilationUnit(netTx.getAST(), w, enumXmlWriter, filter, emitTranslationDate);
                     w.Close();
 
                 }