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VigorSwitch P2260 User’s Guide

The switch provides manual and automatic ways to set the system time via NTP. Manual

setting is simple and you just input “Year”, “Month”, “Day”, “Hour”, “Minute” and

“Second” within the valid value range indicated in each item. If you input an invalid value,

for example, 61 in minute, the switch will clamp the figure to 59.

NTP is a well-known protocol used to synchronize the clock of the switch system time over

a network. NTP, an internet draft standard formalized in RFC 1305, has been adopted on the

system is version 3 protocol. The switch provides four built-in NTP server IP addresses

resided in the Internet and a user-defined NTP server IP address. The time zone is

Greenwich-centered which uses the expression form of GMT+/- xx hours.

Function name:

Time

Function description:

Set the system time by manual input or set it by syncing from Time servers. The function

also supports daylight saving for different area’s time adjustment.

Parameter description:

Current Time: Show the current time of the system.

Manual: This is the function to adjust the time manually. Filling the

valid figures in the fields of Year, Month, Day, Hour,

Minute and Second respectively and press <Apply> button,

time is adjusted. The valid figures for the parameter Year,

Month, Day, Hour, Minute and Second are >=2000, 1-12,

1-31, 0-23, 0-59 and 0-59 respectively. Input the wrong

figure and press <Apply> button, the device will reject the

time adjustment request. There is no time zone setting in

Manual mode.

NTP: NTP is Network Time Protocol and is used to sync the

network time based Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). If use

the NTP mode and select a built-in NTP time server or

manually specify an user-defined NTP server as well as