printing a string problem

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Hello All,

I've been working on a program but one very "simple" part has turned into a stumpper. I am trying to take input from the user and assign it to a variable. Then I put in a print date statement to see if it was working right and it's not. Here's my code, any help would be great!

#include <stdio.h>

char DATE;


void main(void)
{

	printf("test program...PRINT THE DATE!!!\n\n");

	printf("Please enter the DATE the last Monday (MM/DD/YY): ");
	scanf("%c", &DATE);

	printf("\n");
	printf("----------------------------------------------------------------\n");

        printf("%c", DATE);

	fflush(stdin);
	getchar();

}