Basic Management Tasks
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Instruction Manual - NXA-ENET8-POE+
Setting the Time Zone
Use the System > Time (Configure Time Zone) page to set the time zone. SNTP uses Coordinated Universal Time (or UTC, formerly
Greenwich Mean Time, or GMT) based on the time at the Earth's prime meridian, zero degrees longitude, which passes through
Greenwich, England. To display a time corresponding to your local time, you must indicate the number of hours and minutes your
time zone is east (before) or west (after) of UTC. You can choose one of the 80 predefined time zone definitions, or your can
manually configure the parameters for your local time zone.
The following table displays the options on this page:
Perform these steps to set your local time zone:
1.
Click
System
>
Time
.
2.
Select
Configure Time Zone
from the Step list.
3.
Set the offset for your time zone relative to the UTC in hours and minutes.
4.
Click
Apply
.
Configuring Summer Time
Use the Summer Time page to set the system clock forward during the summer months (also known as daylight savings time).
In some countries or regions, clocks are adjusted through the summer months so that afternoons have more daylight and mornings
have less. This is known as Summer Time, or Daylight Savings Time (DST). Typically, clocks are adjusted forward one hour at the
start of spring and then adjusted backward in autumn.
System - Time Options
Predefined Configuration
A drop-down box provides access to the 80 predefined time zone configurations. Each choice
indicates it's offset from UTC and lists at least one major city or location covered by the time zone.
User-defined Configuration
Allows the user to define all parameters of the local time zone.
• Direction - Configures the time zone to be before (east of ) or after (west of) UTC.
• Name - Assigns a name to the time zone. (Range: 1-30 characters)
• Hours (0-13) - The number of hours before or after UTC. The maximum value before UTC is 12.
The maximum value after UTC is 13.
• Minutes (0-59) - The number of minutes before/after UTC.
FIG. 40
Setting the Time Zone