
Chapter 44 System Maintenance Menus 8 to 10
The following table describes the fields in this screen.
Table 246 Menu 24.10 System Maintenance: Time and Date Setting
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Time Protocol | Enter the time service protocol that your timeserver uses. Not all time servers |
| support all protocols, so you may have to check with your ISP/network |
| administrator or use trial and error to find a protocol that works. The main |
| differences between them are the format. |
| Daytime (RFC 867) format is day/month/year/time zone of the server. |
| Time |
| seconds since 1970/1/1 at 0:0:0. |
| The default, NTP |
| Select Manual to enter the new time and new date manually. |
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Time Server | Enter the IP address or domain name of your timeserver. Check with your ISP/ |
Address | network administrator if you are unsure of this information. |
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Current Time | This field displays an updated time only when you reenter this menu. |
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New Time | Enter the new time in hour, minute and second format. This field is available when |
| you select Manual in the Time Protocol field. |
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Current Date | This field displays an updated date only when you reenter this menu. |
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New Date | Enter the new date in year, month and day format. This field is available when you |
| select Manual in the Time Protocol field. |
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Time Zone | Press [SPACE BAR] and then [ENTER] to set the time difference between your |
| time zone and Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). |
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Daylight Saving | Daylight Saving Time is a period from late spring to early fall when many countries |
| set their clocks ahead of normal local time by one hour to give more daylight time in |
| the evenings. If you use daylight savings time, then choose Yes. |
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Start Date (mm- | Configure the day and time when Daylight Saving Time starts if you selected Yes |
in the Daylight Saving field. The hr field uses the 24 hour format. Here are a | |
| couple of examples: |
| Daylight Saving Time starts in most parts of the United States on the first Sunday |
| of April. Each time zone in the United States starts using Daylight Saving Time at 2 |
| A.M. local time. So in the United States you would select Apr., 1st, Sun. and type |
| 02 in the hr field. |
| Daylight Saving Time starts in the European Union on the last Sunday of March. All |
| of the time zones in the European Union start using Daylight Saving Time at the |
| same moment (1 A.M. GMT or UTC). So in the European Union you would select |
| Mar., Last, Sun. The time you type in the hr field depends on your time zone. In |
| Germany for instance, you would type 02 because Germany's time zone is one |
| hour ahead of GMT or UTC (GMT+1). |
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End Date (mm- | Configure the day and time when Daylight Saving Time ends if you selected Yes in |
the Daylight Saving field. The hr field uses the 24 hour format. Here are a couple | |
| of examples: |
| Daylight Saving Time ends in the United States on the last Sunday of October. |
| Each time zone in the United States stops using Daylight Saving Time at 2 A.M. |
| local time. So in the United States you would select Oct., Last, Sun. and type 02 in |
| the hr field. |
| Daylight Saving Time ends in the European Union on the last Sunday of October. |
| All of the time zones in the European Union stop using Daylight Saving Time at the |
| same moment (1 A.M. GMT or UTC). So in the European Union you would select |
| Oct., Last, Sun. The time you type in the hr field depends on your time zone. In |
| Germany for instance, you would type 02 because Germany's time zone is one |
| hour ahead of GMT or UTC (GMT+1). |
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Once you have filled in this menu, press [ENTER] at the message “Press ENTER to Confirm or ESC to Cancel“ to save your configuration, or press [ESC] to cancel.
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