Fixing Output

I need to format the date like mm/dd/yyyy by adding the / character. Any Ideas?

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struct Info
{

	char First[13];
	char Last[13];
	char ID[12];
	char Date[9];
	float Pay;
	float Hours;

	string Name()
	{
		stringstream full;
		full<<Last<<", "<<First;
		return full.str();
	}
	void ShowMe()
	{
		cout << First << " " <<Last<< endl
         	 << Date << endl
          	 << ID << endl
			 << Hours << " @ " << Pay << endl << endl;
	}
};

float average(float , float );
string newdate(string );
int main()
{
    fstream BinIn;
    Info Employees[100];
    int sub=0;
	float TotalGross = 0.0f;
	float AvgGross;

    BinIn.open(".\\Datafiles\\Lab5.bin",ios::in|ios::binary);
    if(BinIn.fail())
    {
        cout<<"Unable to Process\n";
        return 999;
    }
    while(BinIn.eof() == false)
    {
        BinIn.read(reinterpret_cast<char *>(&Employees[sub]),sizeof(Info));
        sub++;
    }
    int maxElements = sub-1;

	cout<<setw(50)<<"Bay West Industries"<<endl
		<<setw(47)<<"Payroll Report"<<endl<<endl;

	cout<<left<<setw(26)<<"Employee"
        <<setw(12)<<"Date Hired"
        <<setw(14)<<"ID"
        <<setw(7)<<"Hours"
        <<setw(7)<<"Rate"
        <<setw(12)<<"Grosspay"<<endl;
        

    cout<<setfill('-')
        <<setw(78)<<'-'<<endl;
    cout<<setfill(' ');

    for(int index=0; index<maxElements; index++)
    {
		float gross = Employees[index].Hours * Employees[index].Pay;
		
        cout<<left<<setw(26)<<Employees[index].Name()
			<<setw(12)<<Employees[index].Date

        	<<setw(15)<<Employees[index].ID
			//<<setprecision(2)<<fixed
        	<<setprecision(3)<<showpoint<<setw(3)<<Employees[index].Hours
        	<<right<<setprecision(4)<<showpoint<<setw(7)<<Employees[index].Pay
        	<<setw(10)<<setprecision(5)<<showpoint<<gross<<endl<<endl;
		TotalGross = TotalGross + gross;
    }
	

	cout<<setfill('-')
        <<setw(78)<<'-'<<endl;
    cout<<setfill(' ');

	cout<<setw(65)<<"Total Employees: "<<maxElements<<endl
		<<setprecision(2)<<fixed
		<<setw(65)<<"Total Gross Pay: "<<TotalGross<<endl
		<<setw(66)<<"Average Gross Pay:  "<<average(TotalGross, AvgGross)<<endl<<endl
		<<setw(57)<<"Report Prepared By: Stephanie Precht"<<endl;
}
float average(float Total, float avg)
{
	avg = Total / 17.0f;
	return avg;
}
How is it currently formatted?
It is currently formatted as mmddyyyy. I just need to add the slashes.
If you only need to add the slashes for output, you could do something like
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cout << Date[0] << Date[1] << '/' << Date[2] << Date[3]
     << '/'  << Date[4] << Date[5] << Date[6] << Date[7]

It's not nice, but it would work. It could also be for-looped like
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for ( int i = 0; i < 8; ++i )
{
    if ( i == 2 || i == 4 )
        cout << '/';

    cout << Date[i];
}
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