[EMAIL PROTECTED] missed the man files in his struggle. I just discovered today that there are a large number of man pages included in debian seven disk download for hamm. One has to read throught the programming jargon but they are there. Try ls /usr/man/man1 or man2 through man5 and man7 and man8. The man pages are all *.gz files but zmore /usr/man/man1 or # takes care of that. Using the hwclock man page I was able to set the date properly but still havent figured out how to set the time. Is this fun or what? [EMAIL PROTECTED]