The date /was/ Tue Aug 15 10:19:52 2006 until i went through the below...now the date shows..but...i still want to be able to do ntpdate pool.ntp.org or something similar.

ASTERISK:~# date
Thu Aug 17 12:16:00 CDT 2006
ASTERISK:~# apt-get install ntpdate
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
ntpdate is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 578 not upgraded.
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://http.us.debian.org sarge/main Packag                                                                                            es (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_sarge_main_binary-i386_Pa                                                                                            ckages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
ASTERISK:~# apt-get update
Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org sarge/main Packages [3349kB]
Hit http://security.debian.org sarge/updates/main Packages
Hit http://security.debian.org sarge/updates/main Release
Get:2 ftp://debian.oregonstate.edu testing/main Packages [5362kB]
Hit ftp://debian.oregonstate.edu testing/main Release
Hit ftp://debian.oregonstate.edu testing/main Sources
Hit ftp://debian.oregonstate.edu testing/main Release
Err http://http.us.debian.org sarge/main Packages
  Connection timed out [IP: 64.50.238.52 80]
Get:3 http://http.us.debian.org sarge/main Release [95B]
Hit http://http.us.debian.org sarge/contrib Packages
Hit http://http.us.debian.org sarge/contrib Release
Hit http://http.us.debian.org sarge/non-free Packages
Hit http://http.us.debian.org sarge/non-free Release
Fetched 5256kB in 2m2s (42.8kB/s)
Failed to fetch http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz  Connection timed out [IP: 64.50.238.52 80]
Reading Package Lists... Done
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://http.us.debian.org sarge/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_sarge_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: Couldn't stat source package list http://http.us.debian.org sarge/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/http.us.debian.org_debian_dists_sarge_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead.