Daylight Savings Time on ProCurve Switches

Middle Europe and Portugal:

•Begin DST at 2am the first Sunday on or after March 25th.

•End DST at 2am the first Sunday on or after September 24th.

Southern Hemisphere:

•Begin DST at 2am the first Sunday on or after October 25th.

•End DST at 2am the first Sunday on or after March 1st.

Western Europe:

•Begin DST at 2am the first Sunday on or after March 23rd.

•End DST at 2am the first Sunday on or after October 23rd.

A sixth option named “User defined” allows you to customize the DST configuration by entering the beginning month and date plus the ending month and date for the time change. The menu interface screen looks like this (all month/ date entries are at their default values):

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Switch Configuration - System Information

System Name : ProCurve 6120 Blade Switch

System Contact :

System Location :

Inactivity Timeout (min) [0] : 0

MAC Age Time (sec) [300] : 300

Inbound Telnet Enabled [Yes] : Yes

Web Agent Enabled [Yes] : Yes

Time Sync Method [None] : TIMEP

 

 

 

 

TimeP Mode [Disabled] : Disabled

 

 

 

 

Tftp-enable [Yes] : Yes

Jumbo Max Frame Size [9216] : 9216

Time Zone [0] : 0

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Select User-defined and press [v] to

Daylight Time Rule [None] : User-defined

display the remaining parameters.

Beginning month [April] : April

 

Beginning day [1] : 1

Ending month [October] : October

Ending day [1] : 1

 

Actions-> Cancel Edit Save Help

Edit the fields displayed above.

Use arrow keys to change action selection and <Enter> to execute action.

Figure F-1. Menu Interface with “User-Defined” Daylight Time Rule Option

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