Cisco Systems IP phone 7960 Setting the Date, Time, and Daylight Savings Time, Before You Begin

Chapter 3 Managing Cisco SIP IP Phones

Setting the Date, Time, and Daylight Savings Time

Setting the Date, Time, and Daylight Savings Time

The current date and time is supported on the Cisco SIP IP phone via SNTP and is displayed on the phone’s LCD. In addition to supporting the current date and time, daylight savings time (DST) and time zone settings are also supported. DST can be configured to be obtained via an absolute (for example, starts on April 1 and ends on October 1) or relative (for example, starts the first Sunday in April and ends on the last day of October) configuration.

We recommend that date and time-related parameters be defined in the

SIPDefault.cnf file.

Before You Begin

When configuring the date, time, time zone, and DST settings, remember the following:

•Review the guidelines and restrictions documented in the “Configuration File Guidelines” section on page 2-6.

•Determine whether you want to configure absolute DST or relative DST.

•The SNTP parameters specify how the phone will obtain the current time from an SNTP server. Review the guidelines in Table 3-2 and Table 3-3 before configuring the SNTP parameters:

Table 3-2 lists the actions that take place when a null value (0.0.0.0) is specified in the sntp_server parameter.

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