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 ==== Broken startup banner. ====
-On startup, the simulator prints Author: Unknown and
+On startup, the simulator prints Author: Unknown and prints a bogus Date.
-prints a bogus Date, even when an author and a date
-have been specified in the *-set.xml file.  Apparently
-the code is having trouble reading elements from
-the file.  This has been observed on a wide variety
-of aircraft.
-* It is likely that the offending printout comes from JSBSim and refers to the (lack of) author, date and version fields in the JSBSim flight model XML file for the aircraft. Whether that is a bug or not can be debated...
+The printout comes from JSBSim and refers to the (lack of) author, date and version fields in the JSBSim flight model XML file for the aircraft. According to the schema for JSBSim-ML (the markup language specification for JSBSim aircraft) the author, creation date, version, and description are not required fields, so the message that is printed out should account for missing elements.
 ==== Memory mismanagement in subsystem_mgr. ====