System > Time

Setting the Time Manually

Use the System > Time (Configure General - Manual) page to set the system time on the switch manually without using SNTP.

Setting the SNTP Polling Interval

Use the System > Time (Configure General - SNTP) page to configure the switch to send time synchronization requests to time servers. Set the SNTP polling interval, SNTP servers.

Specify the polling interval at which the switch will query the time servers.

Configuring NTP

Use the System > Time (Configure General - NTP) page to configure NTP authentication and show the polling interval at which the switch will query the specified time servers.

Configuring Time Servers

Use the System > Time (Configure Time Server) pages to specify the IP address for NTP/SNTP time servers, or to set the authentication key for NTP time servers.

Specifying SNTP Time Servers

Use the System > Time (Configure Time Server - Configure SNTP Server) page to specify the IP address for up to three SNTP time servers.

Specifying NTP Time Servers

Use the System > Time (Configure Time Server - Add NTP Server) page to add the IP address for up to 50 NTP time servers.

Specifying NTP Authentication Keys

Use the System > Time (Configure Time Server - Add NTP Authentication Key) page to add an entry to the authentication key list.

Setting the Time Zone

Use the System > Time (Configure Time Zone) page to set the time zone. SNTP uses Coordinated Universal Time (or UTC, formerly Greenwich Mean Time, or GMT) based on the time at the Earth‘s prime meridian, zero degrees longitude, which passes through Greenwich, England. To display a time corresponding to your local time, you must indicate the number of hours and minutes your time zone is east (before) or west (after) of UTC. You can choose one of the 80 predefined time zone definitions, or your can manually configure the parameters for your local time zone.

Configuring Summer Time

Use the System > Time (Configure Summer Time) menu to configures summer time (that is, Daylight Savings Time) for the switch’s internal clock.

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