Chapter 3
| Basic Management Tasks
Setting the System Clock
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Figure 18: Adding an NTP Authentication Key
To show the list of configured NTP authentication keys:
1. Click System, then Time.
2. Select Configure Time Server from the Step list.
3. Select Show NTP Authentication Key from the Action list.
Figure 19: Showing the NTP Authentication Key List
Setting the Time Zone Use the System > Time (Configure Time Server) 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 west
(before) or east (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.
Parameters
The following parameters are displayed:
â—† Direction: Configures the time zone to be before (west of) or after (east of)
UTC.
◆ Name – Assigns a name to the time zone. (Range: 1-29 characters)
◆ Hours – The number of hours before/after UTC. The maximum value before
UTC is 12. The maximum value after UTC is 13. (Range: 0-13 hours)
◆ Minutes – The number of minutes before/after UTC. (Range: 0-59 minutes)