G-3000H User’s Guide

time manually or get the current time and date from an external server when you turn on your ZyAIR. Menu 24.10 allows you to update the time and date settings of your ZyAIR. The real time is then displayed in the ZyAIR error logs.

1Select menu 24 in the main menu to open Menu 24 – System Maintenance.

2Then enter 10 to go to Menu 24.10 – System Maintenance – Time and Date Setting to update the time and date settings of your ZyAIR as shown in the following screen.

Figure 155 Menu 24.10 System Maintenance: Time and Date Setting

Menu 24.10 - System Maintenance - Time and Date Setting

Time Protocol= NTP (RFC-1305)

Time Server Address= 128.105.39.21

Current Time:

05

: 47

:

19

New Time (hh:mm:ss):

05

: 47

:

17

Current Date:

2000

- 01

– 01

New Date (yyyy-mm-dd):

2000

- 01

– 01

Time Zone= GMT

 

 

 

 

 

Daylight Saving= No

 

 

 

01

– 01

Start Date (mm-dd):

 

 

 

End Date (mm-dd):

 

 

 

01

– 01

Press ENTER to Confirm or ESC to Cancel:

The following table describes the fields in this menu.

Table 80 System Maintenance: Time and Date Setting

FIELD

DESCRIPTION

 

 

Time Protocol

Enter the time service protocol that your time server sends when you turn on

 

the ZyAIR. 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 (RFC-868)format displays a 4-byte integer giving the total number of

 

seconds since 1970/1/1 at 0:0:0.

 

NTP (RFC-1305) is similar to Time (RFC-868).

 

None. The default, enter the time manually.

 

 

Time Server Address

Enter the IP address or domain name of your time server. Check with your ISP/

 

network administrator if you are unsure of this information.

Current Time

This field displays an updated time only when you reenter this menu.

 

 

New Time

Enter the new time in hour, minute and second format.

 

 

Current Date

This field displays an updated date only when you re-enter this menu.

 

 

New Date

Enter the new date in year, month and day format.

 

 

Time Zone

Press [SPACE BAR] and then [ENTER] to set the time difference between your

 

time zone and Greenwich Mean Time (GMT).

Daylight Saving

If you use daylight savings time, then choose Yes.

 

 

Start Date

If using daylight savings time, enter the month and day that it starts on.

 

 

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