diff --git a/parsers/survex.py b/parsers/survex.py
index 8ba7866..2be2217 100644
--- a/parsers/survex.py
+++ b/parsers/survex.py
@@ -435,23 +435,34 @@ class LoadingSurvex:
             self.currentdate = self.inheritdate # unecessary duplication
             # Not an error, so not put in DataIssues, but is printed to debug output
             message = (
-                f"- No *date. INHERITING date from ({survexblock.parent})-{survexblock.parent.survexfile.path} to ({survexblock})-{survexblock.survexfile.path} {self.inheritdate:%Y-%m-%d}"
+                f"- No *date. INHERITING date '{self.inheritdate:%Y-%m-%d}' from ({survexblock.parent})-{survexblock.parent.survexfile.path} to ({survexblock})-{survexblock.survexfile.path} {self.inheritdate:%Y-%m-%d}"
             )
             print(self.insp + message)
             # stash_data_issue(
                 # parser="survex", message=message, url=None, sb=(survexblock.survexfile.path) # child
             # )
             if survexblock.survexfile != survexblock.parent.survexfile:
-                # This is noteworthy, however.
-                message = (
-                    f"- Warning *date INHERITED from DIFFERENT file:\n  ({survexblock.parent})-{survexblock.parent.survexfile.path} to ({survexblock})-{survexblock.survexfile.path} {self.inheritdate:%Y-%m-%d}\n  {self.stackbegin} {self.inheritdate:%Y-%m-%d}"
-                )
-                print(self.insp + message)
-                stash_data_issue(
-                    parser="survex", message=message, url=None, sb=(survexblock.parent.survexfile.path) # PARENT
-                )
-                    
-            return self.inheritdate
+                 # This is noteworthy, however.
+           
+                if survexblock.parent.name == "rootblock":
+                    # Not a sensible thing to inherit a date from, even if a date exists, which it shouldn't...
+                    message = (
+                       f"- No *date. But not sensible to inherit from rootblock. From ({survexblock.parent})-{survexblock.parent.survexfile.path} to ({survexblock})-{survexblock.survexfile.path} {self.inheritdate:%Y-%m-%d}"
+                     )
+                    print(self.insp + message)
+                    # stash_data_issue(
+                        # parser="survex", message=message, url=None, sb=(survexblock.survexfile.path) 
+                    # )
+                    return
+                else:
+                    message = (
+                        f"- Warning *date '{self.inheritdate:%Y-%m-%d}' INHERITED from DIFFERENT file:\n  ({survexblock.parent})-{survexblock.parent.survexfile.path} to ({survexblock})-{survexblock.survexfile.path} {self.inheritdate:%Y-%m-%d}\n  {self.stackbegin} {self.inheritdate:%Y-%m-%d}"
+                    )
+                    print(self.insp + message)
+                    stash_data_issue(
+                        parser="survex", message=message, url=None, sb=(survexblock.parent.survexfile.path) # PARENT
+                    )
+                    return self.inheritdate
         else:
             # This is not an error in the Expo dataset. 
             # Many files just holding *include lines do not have dates.
@@ -2203,7 +2214,7 @@ def FindAndLoadSurvex(survexblockroot):
     )
     check_team_cache()
     print(f" -- Now loading the previously-omitted survex files.", file=sys.stderr)
-    print(f"  - (except the exceptions: {excpts})", file=sys.stderr)
+    print(f"  - (except: {excpts})", file=sys.stderr)
 
     with open(Path(settings.SURVEX_DATA, UNSEENS), "w") as u:
         u.write(