1.
Enter the
tstimezone
command:
switch:admin> tstimezone --interactive
2.
You are prompted to select a general location.
Please identify a location so that time zone rules can be set correctly.
3.
Enter the appropriate number or
Ctrl
+
D
to quit.
4.
At the prompt, select a country location.
5.
At the prompt, enter the appropriate number to specify the time zone region or
Ctrl
+
D
to quit.
Correcting the time zone
If the switch time is off by hours (not minutes), set the time zone as follows:
1.
Log in as
admin
.
2.
Enter the
tstimezone -interactive
command and follow the prompts or enter the
tstimezone
command as follows:
tstimezone [
houroffset
[,
minuteoffset
]]
For Pacific Standard Time, enter
tstimezone -8,0
For Central Standard Time, enter
tstimezone -6,0
For Eastern Standard Time, enter
tstimezone -5,0
The default time zone for switches is UTC, which is 8 hours ahead of Pacific Standard Time. To
determine the
tstimezone
command parameter for other U.S. time zones, see
The parameters do not apply if the time zone for the switch has already been changed from the default
(UTC). Because the time value is stored in nonvolatile memory, you need only set this once.
For more information about the command parameters, see the
tstimezone
command description
in the
Fabric OS Command Reference
.
Table 7 tstimezone command parameters
tstimezone parameter (difference from UTC)
Local time
-4,0
Atlantic Standard
-3,0
Atlantic Daylight
-5,0
Eastern Standard
-4,0
Eastern Daylight
-6,0
Central Standard
-5,0
Central Daylight
-7,0
Mountain Standard
-6,0
Mountain Daylight
-8,0
Pacific Standard
-7,0
Pacific Daylight
Installing and configuring an 8-Gb SAN Switch
50
