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– For Eastern Standard Time, enter tsTimeZone -5,0 .
Table 14. Example: tsTimeZone command parameter selection for the US time zones
Local time
tsTimeZone
parameter
(difference from
UTC)
Atlantic Standard -4,0
Atlantic Daylight -3,0
Eastern Standard -5,0
Eastern Daylight -4,0
Central Standard -6,0
Central Daylight -5,0
Mountain Standard -7,0
Mountain Daylight -6,0
Pacific Standard -8,0
Pacific Daylight -7,0
Alaskan Standard -9,0
Alaskan Daylight -8,0
Hawaiian Standard -10,0
v Enter the
tsTimeZone
command followed by the time zone, such as US/Pacific, US/Central, or
US/Eastern as in the following example.
switch_99:Admin> tstimezone US/Pacific
System Time Zone change will take effect at next reboot
Synchronizing local time with an external source
About this task
Perform the following steps to synchronize the local time of the principal or primary FCS device with
that of an external NTP server.
Procedure
1. Log into the device using one of the following methods:
v A serial console connection to the active CP blade. The active CP is indicated by an illuminated
blue LED on the blade front panel.
v A Telnet session using the chassis management IP address.
2. Log into the device using admin. If you have not changed the default password, usepassword.
3. Enter the tsClockServer ipaddr command.
The ipaddr variable represents the IP address of the NTP server that the device can access. This
argument is optional; by default, the value is "LOCL".
switch:admin> tsclockserver 192.168.126.60
Updating Clock Server configuration...done.
Updated with the NTP servers
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