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Time & date configuration – Adder Technology 5000 User Manual

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Time & date configuration

This page allows you to configure all aspects relating to time and date within the
AdderView CATxIP 5000 unit.

Timezone specifier
Optionally enter a recognised timezone specifier related to the current position
of the AdderView CATxIP 5000 unit. When an NTP server is used, the specifier
will be used to provide the correct real time.
The timezone specifier takes the following form:

std offset dst [offset],start[/time],end[/time]

The

std

and

offset

specify the standard time zone, such as GMT and 0, or CET

and -1, or EST and 5, respectively.

The

dst

string and

[offset]

specify the name and offset for the corresponding

Daylight Saving Time zone; if the

offset

is omitted, it defaults to one hour ahead

of standard time.
The remainder of the specification describes when Daylight Saving Time is in
effect. The

start

field is when Daylight Saving Time goes into effect and the

end

field is when the change is made back to standard time. The most common

format used for the daylight saving time is:

M

m

.

w

.

d

Where:

m specifies the

month and must be between

1 and 12. The day

d

must be between

0 (Sunday) and 6. The week

w

must be between

1 and 5;

week

1 is the first week in which day

d

occurs, and week

5 specifies the

last

d

day in the month.

The

time

fields specify when, in the local time currently in effect, the change to

the other time occurs. If omitted, the default is

02:00:00.

Typical examples are:

UK:

GMT0BST,M3.5.0/1,M10.5.0/2

Central Europe:

CET-1CEST,M3.5.0/2,M10.5.0/3

US Eastern:

EST5EDT,M3.2.0/2,M11.1.0/2

US Pacific:

PST5PDT,M3.2.0/2,M11.1.0/2

For further details

• For details of timezone specifier formats, please refer to:

http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/TZ-Variable.html

• For details of the Network Time Protocol (main RFC number: 1305; the SNTP

subset used as the basis for the AdderView CATxIP 5000: 4330)

http://www.ietf.org/rfc.html

Time and Date
Use the arrow buttons to set the correct current time.

Use NTP
When this option is selected, the AdderView CATxIP 5000 will synchronise its
internal clocks using information from the (Network Time Protocol) server listed
in the NTP Server IP address field.

NTP Server IP address
Optionally enter the IP address for a known Network Time Protocol server.

Set Time from NTP Server
Click to immediately use the time and date information from the listed NTP server.