diff --git a/tools/daca2.py b/tools/daca2.py
index a91526d5a..ade80255b 100644
--- a/tools/daca2.py
+++ b/tools/daca2.py
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ os.chdir(workdir + FOLDER)
 
 try:
     results = open('results.txt', 'wt')
-    results.write('DATE ' + str(datetime.date.today()) + '\n')
+    results.write('STARTDATE ' + str(datetime.date.today()) + '\n')
     if REV:
         results.write('GIT-REVISION ' + REV + '\n')
     results.write('\n')
@@ -212,6 +212,10 @@ try:
     for archive in archives:
         scanarchive(archive)
 
+    results = open('results.txt', 'at')
+    results.write('DATE ' + str(datetime.date.today()) + '\n')
+    results.close()
+
 except EOFError:
     pass