Chapter 3
| Basic Management Tasks
Setting the System Clock
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Figure 19: Showing the NTP 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.Parameters
The following parameters are displayed:
◆ Name – Assigns a name to the time zone. (Range: 1-30 characters)
◆ Hours (-12-13) – The number of hours before or after UTC. The maximum value
before UTC is 12. The maximum value after UTC is 13.
◆ Minutes (0-59) – The number of minutes before/after UTC.
Web Interface
To set your local time zone:
1. Click System, then Time.
2. Select Configure Time Zone from the Step list.
3. Set the offset for your time zone relative to the UTC in hours and minutes.
4. Click Apply.