> Short of manually editing the logbook files, is there a way I can change the
> date of an entry?  I want to transfer my "Linux Journal", which I have been
> writing as a regular document for several months, into elog so I can take
> advantage of the threading, sorting, find, etc.

You cannot change the entry date, since this is kind of system stamp which 
should not be modified. But you can add an attribute like "Issue" for your 
Linux Journal, where you can add manually the month and year of release or so. 
Then you can preset this attribute with the current date, which you can change 
for older issues, like

Attributes = ...., Issue
Preset Issue = $date
Date format = %B %Y

Hope this helps.

- Stefan