System Management
7210 SAS D, E, K OS Basic System Configuration Guide Page 183
System Time
Routers are equipped with a real-time system clock for time keeping purposes. When set, the
system clock always operates on Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), but the software has options
for local time translation as well as system clock synchronization.
System time parameters include:
• Time Zones on page 183
• Network Time Protocol (NTP) on page 185
• SNTP Time Synchronization on page 186
• CRON on page 187
Time Zones
Setting a time zone in allows for times to be displayed in the local time rather than in UTC. The
has both user-defined and system defined time zones.
A user-defined time zone has a user assigned name of up to four printable ASCII characters in
length and unique from the system-defined time zones. For user-defined time zones, the offset
from UTC is configured as well as any summer time adjustment for the time zone.
The system-defined time zones are listed in Table 17 which includes both time zones with and
without summer time correction.
Table 17: System-defined Time Zones
Acronym Time Zone Name UTC Offset
Europe:
GMT Greenwich Mean Time UTC
BST British Summer Time UTC +1
IST Irish Summer Time UTC +1*
WET Western Europe Time UTC
WEST Western Europe Summer Time UTC +1
CET Central Europe Time UTC +1
CEST Central Europe Summer Time UTC +2
EET Eastern Europe Time UTC +2
EEST Eastern Europe Summer Time UTC +3