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+Hwclock is a program that runs under Linux and sets and queries the 
+Hardware Clock, which is often called the Real Time Clock, RTC, or
+CMOS clock.
+
+Sometimes, you need to install hwclock setuid root.  If you want users
+other than the superuser to be able to display the clock value using the
+direct ISA I/O method, install it setuid root.  If you have the /dev/rtc
+interface on your system or are on a non-ISA system, there's probably
+no need for users to use the direct ISA I/O method, so don't bother.
+
+To install setuid root, do something like this:
+
+  chmod a=rx,u=s /sbin/hwclock
+
+In any case, hwclock will not allow you to set anything unless you have
+the superuser _real_ uid.  (This is restriction is not necessary if you
+haven't installed setuid root, but it's there for now).
+
+You may want to preformat and/or compress the man page before installing.
+
+If you want to build hwclock, just cd to the source directory and invoke
+make with no parameters.
+
+hwclock calls option processing routines in the libsshopt library,
+which is part of Sverre H. Huseby's "shhopt" package. You
+can find a more authoritative copy of this package on metalab
+(ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/libs/shhopt-X.Y).