@richwhite. No, I haven't found a way to scroll the remote either, and the theme is a built in one called modern.
@eefo. I can't find the original site I got the commands from, so here is what I wrote down. If you search google for linux date commands, just replace the appropriate parts for more commands. These are the ones I used. I made each one seperately in qbw and changed the size to how I wanted.

Date Commands

date '+%u' = Month (As number)
date '+%a' = Day of week (Abbreviated)
date '+%A' = Day of week (Full)
date "+%b" = Month (Abbreviated)
date "+%B" = Month (Full)
date "+%D" = 06/04/11 (American) Should be 4th of June
date "+%d" = Day of month (Number)
date "+%Y" = Year (Full)
EDIT: I made a few mistakes on some of the outputs, but you get the idea. Commands can be found on any linux command site.