Changes by: Jason J. Hickey (jyh at cs.caltech.edu)
Date: 2007-08-06 10:40:33 -0700 (Mon, 06 Aug 2007)
Revision: 11601
Log message:

      For now, use "static." not ".STATIC" to check the date, so
     we don't have to see all the "checking for date" messages.