4 Command Line Interface

show sntp

This command displays the current time and configuration settings for the SNTP client, and indicates whether or not the local time has been properly updated.

Command Mode

Normal Exec, Privileged Exec

Command Usage

This command displays the current time, the poll interval used for sending time synchronization requests, and the current SNTP mode (i.e., unicast).

Example

Console#show sntp

Current time: Dec 23 05:13:28 2002

Poll interval: 16

Current mode: unicast

SNTP status : Enabled

SNTP server 137.92.140.80 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0

Current server: 137.92.140.80

Console#

clock timezone

This command sets the time zone for the switch’s internal clock.

Syntax

clock timezone name hour hours minute minutes {before-utc after-utc}

•name - Name of timezone, usually an acronym. (Range: 1-29 characters)

•hours - Number of hours before/after UTC. (Range: 0-13 hours)

•minutes - Number of minutes before/after UTC. (Range: 0-59 minutes)

•before-utc - Sets the local time zone before (east) of UTC.

•after-utc - Sets the local time zone after (west) of UTC.

Default Setting

None

Command Mode

Global Configuration

Command Usage

This command sets the local time zone relative to the Coordinated Universal Time (UTC, formerly Greenwich Mean Time or GMT), based on the earth’s prime meridian, zero degrees longitude. 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.

Example

Console(config)#clock timezone Japan hours 8 minute 0 after-UTC Console(config)#

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