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IP ADDRESSING CHAPTER 5: IP ADDRESSING
5.3.3 Date and Time
It may be necessary to set the day, time or the time zone manually. This can be done by
using the
set
command with the necessary date and time options with the following
syntax:
set timezone GMT=[+ or -] hour=<0-14>
min=<0-59>
set date year=<2001-2035> month=<1-12> day=<1-31>
[format=<mmddyyyy|ddmmyyyy|yyyymmdd>]
set time hour=<0-23> min=<0-59> sec=<0-59> [zone=GMT[+/-]hh:mm]
To set the time to be 08:10 am in the -5 hours from GMT (Eastern Standard Time) and to set
the date as 11 May 2005, the following sequence of commands are used.
ML3000#
set time hour=8 min=10 sec=0 zone=GMT-5:00
Success in setting device time
ML3000#
show time
Time: 8:10:04
ML3000#
show timezone
Timezone: GMT-05hours:00minutes
ML3000#
set date year=2005 month=5 day=11
Success in setting device date
ML3000#
show date
System Date: Wednesday 15-11-2005 (in mm
-dd-yyyy format)
ML3000#
The syntax for other date and time commands are:
set timeformat format=<12|24>
set daylight country=<country name>
The following command sequence sets the daylight location:
ML3000#
set daylight country=Canada
Success in setting daylight savings to the
given location/country Canada
ML3000#
show daylight
Daylight savings location name: Canada
ML3000#
The date and time can only be set through the command line interface software.
5.3.4 Network Time
Many networks synchronize the time using a network time server. The network time server
provides time to the different machines using the Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP). To
specify the SNTP server, one has to
1. Set the IP parameters on the switch
2. Define the SNTP parameters