Day & Time, Initialize | Digital Data Communications FCS-4500

Day & Time

Current date & time：This displays the current date and time of the device.

PC clock：This displays the date and time of the monitoring PC clock.

Date & time format：Click the pulldown box to select among different time display formats, including yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss (year-month-day hour:minute:second), mm-dd-yyyy hh:mm:ss (month-day-year hour:minute:second), and dd-mm-yyyy hh:mm:ss (day-month-year hour:minute:second). Adjust：Select one of four time adjusting modes.

Keep current setting：Select this mode to keep the current date and time of the device.

Synchronize with PC：Select this mode to make the date and time of the device the same as the monitoring PC.

Manual setting：Select this mode to manually adjust the date & time of the device.

Synchronize with NTP：Specify the NTP server name and the Refresh Interval to synchronize the date and time of the device with those of the time server, known as the NTP (Network Time Protocol) server.

Note:

•The NTP server (Network Time Protocol) is the time server which is an Internet standard protocol (built on top of TCP/IP) that assures accurate synchronization to the millisecond of computer clock times in a network of computers.

NTP server name：Type the host name or IP address of the NTP server, up to 64 characters.

Time zone：Select the time zone and time difference from Greenwich Mean Time in the area where the device is installed from the pulldown box.