How To Set The Date And Time - Cisco 7960G Administrator's Manual

Chapter 3 Initializing Cisco SIP IP Phones
Procedure
Unlock the phone (see the
Step 1
Step 2 On the IP phone, select Settings > Call Preferences.
Step 3 Set any of the following preferences to the desired setting:
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Select Save. The phone programs the new information into flash memory and resets.
Step 4
Relock the phone.
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How to Set the Date and Time

You can set date, time, and daylight savings time (DST) parameters. The current date and time is
supported on the Cisco IP 7960G/7940G phone using Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) and is
displayed on the LCD. DST and time-zone settings are also supported.
International time-zone abbreviations are supported and must be in all capital letters.
Note We recommend that you set date- and time-related parameters in the default file for all phones.
Alternatively, you can set the time-zone parameter manually on the phone or in the phone-specific
configuration files.
Prerequisites
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"Unlocking and Locking the Phone" section on page
Anonymous Call Block
Auto-Complete Numbers
Caller ID Blocking
Call Hold Ringback
Call Waiting
Do Not Disturb
Determine the type of DST that you want to configure:
Absolute DST (for example, starts on April 1 and ends on October 1)
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Relative DST (for example, starts on the first Sunday in April and ends on the last Sunday of
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October)
Review the list of common and absolute DST parameters from
Parameters for the SIP IP Phone."
Review the information on SNTP in
phone obtains the current time from an SNTP server.
Determine your time zone from
Table 3-4 on page 3-19. SNTP parameters specify how the
Table 3-5 on page 3-20.
Cisco SIP IP Phone Administrator Guide, Release 6.x and 7.x
How to Set the Date and Time
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Appendix D, "Configurable
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