Setting The Time Zone - IBM 8960-F64 Hardware Installation Manual

Setting the time zone

You can synchronize the local time of the principal or primary fabric configuration server (FCS) device
to that of an external Network Time Protocol (NTP) server.
Perform the following steps to set the date and time.
1. Log in to the device as admin.
2. Enter the date ["newdate"] command at the command line.
The newdate variable specifies the new date and time enclosed in double quotation marks. The
operand is optional; if omitted, the current date and time is displayed. Date and time are specified
as a string in the mmddhhmmyy format:
• mm: Specifies the month. Valid values are 01 to 12.
• dd: Specifies the date. Valid values are 01 to 31.
• hh: Specifies the hour. Valid values are 00 to 23.
• mm: Specifies the minutes. Valid values are 00 to 59.
• yy: Specifies the year, valid values are 00 to 37 and 70 to 99. Year values from 70 to 99 are
device:admin> date
Fri May 22 14:05:10 UTC 2015
device:admin> date "0522140615"
Fri May 22 14:06:00 UTC 2015
Setting the time zone
The default time zone is Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The time zone must be set only once
because the value is stored in nonvolatile memory. Use the following procedure to set the time zone.
1. Log in as admin.
2. Use the tsTimeZone --interactive command and follow the prompts, or enter the tsTimeZone
[houroffset [, minuteoffset]] command as follows:
For Pacific Standard Time, enter tsTimeZone -8,0.
For Central Standard Time, enter tsTimeZone -6,0.
For Eastern Standard Time, enter tsTimeZone -5,0.
TABLE 8 tsTimeZone command parameter selection for the US time zones
Local time
Atlantic Standard
Atlantic Daylight
Eastern Standard
Eastern Daylight
Central Standard
Central Daylight
Mountain Standard
Mountain Daylight
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interpreted as 1970 to 1999; year values from 00 to 37 are interpreted as 2000 to 2037.
tsTimeZone parameter (difference from UTC)
-4,0
-3,0
-5,0
-4,0
-6,0
-5,0
-7,0
-6,0
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