Chapter 25 System Maintenance and Information

25.2 Time and Date Setting

The ZyXEL Device keeps track of the time and date. There is also a software mechanism to set the time manually or get the current time and date from an external server when you turn on your ZyXEL Device. Menu 24.10 allows you to update the time and date settings of your ZyXEL Device. The updated time is then displayed in the ZyXEL Device 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 ZyXEL Device as shown in the following screen.

Figure 165 Menu 24.10 System Maintenance: Time and Date Setting

Menu 24.10 - System Maintenance - Time and Date Setting

Time

Protocol= Manual

 

 

 

 

 

Time

Server Address= N/A

 

 

 

 

 

Current Time:

00

: 33 :

03

 

New Time (hh:mm:ss):

00

: 32 :

51

 

Current Date:

2000 - 01

- 01

 

New Date (yyyy-mm-dd):

2000 - 01

- 01

 

Time

Zone= GMT

 

 

 

 

 

Daylight Saving= No

Jan. -

1st

-

Sun.(02)

- 00

Start Date (mm-nth-week-hr):

End Date

(mm-nth-week-hr):

Jan. -

1st

-

Sun.(02)

- 00

Press ENTER to Confirm or ESC to Cancel:

The following table describes the fields in this menu.

Table 92 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 ZyXEL Device. 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).

 

Manual. 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.

 

 

 

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