Date and Time Commands
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Parameters start-week — Specifies the starting week of the month when the summer time will take effect.
Values first, second, third, fourth, last
Default first
start-day — Specifies the starting day of the week when the summer time will take effect.
Default sunday
Values sunday, monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday
start-month — The starting month of the year when the summer time will take effect.
Values january, february, march, april, may, june, july, august, september, october, novem-
ber, december
Default january
hours — Specifies the hour at which the summer time will take effect.
Default 0
minutes — Specifies the number of minutes, after the hours defined by the hours parameter, when the
summer time will take effect.
Default 0
zone
Syntax zone
[
std-zone-name
|
non-std-zone-name
] [
hh [:mm]
]
no zone
Context config>system>time
Description This command sets the time zone and/or time zone offset for the device.
The OS supports system-defined and user-defined time zones. The system-defined time zones are
listed in Table 16, System-defined Time Zones, on page 200.
For user-defined time zones, the zone and the UTC offset must be specified.
The no form of the command reverts to the default of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). If the time
zone in use was a user-defined time zone, the time zone will be deleted. If a dst-zone command has
been configured that references the zone, the summer commands must be deleted before the zone can
be reset to UTC.
Default zone utc - The time zone is set for Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
Parameters std-zone-name — The standard time zone name. The standard name must be a system-defined zone in
Table 16. For zone names in the table that have an implicit summer time setting, for example
MDT for Mountain Daylight Saving Time, the remaining start-date, end-date and offset
parameters need to be provided unless it is necessary to override the system defaults for the time
zone.
For system-defined time zones, a different offset cannot be specified. If a new time zone is
needed with a different offset, the user must create a new time zone. Note that some system-