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bintec User’s Guide System
Submenu Time and Date
The menu consists of the following fields:
Field Description
Current System Time Here the current date and system time are dis-
played. The entry cannot be changed.
SET BY displays how the time has been set.
Change System Time Here you can manually set the current date and
system time.
The modification is set with CHANGE.
Time Update Interval Here you enter the interval (in seconds) at
which automatic time updates are carried out.
Default value is 86400.
Update System Time
from ISDN
Here you can choose whether the time informa-
tion received at the beginning of an incoming
ISDN connection is used to update the system
time. This option is used as long as a time
update has been received from a time server
since boot time.
Available values are enabled and disabled, the
default value is
disabled.
System Time Offset from
GMT
Here you enter the offset (in seconds) between
system time and time received from the time
server. Values between
1 and 23 are inter-
preted as hours and are converted to seconds
upon saving the configuration.
Positive values can be entered as well as nega-
tive ones, the default value is 0.
Name/Address Here you can enter up to three time servers,
either by their domain name or by their IP
address.