System; Time Zone - Billion BIPAC 8500 User Manual

Billion BIPAC-8500 / 8520 SHDSL VPN Firewall Bridge / Router

System

There are six items within the System section: Time Zone, Remote Access, Firmware
Upgrade, Backup/Restore, Restart and User Management.

Time Zone

The router does not have a real time clock on board; instead, it uses the Simple Network
Time Protocol (SNTP) to get the current time from an SNTP server outside your network.
Choose your local time zone, click Enable and click the Apply button. After a successful
connection to the Internet, the router will retrieve the correct local time from the SNTP
server you have specified. If you prefer to specify an SNTP server other than those in the
drop-down list, simply enter its IP address as shown above. Your ISP may provide an
SNTP server for you to use.
Resync Poll Interval (in minutes) is the periodic interval the router will wait before it re-
synchronizes the router's time with that of the specified SNTP server. In order to avoid
unnecessarily increasing the load on your specified SNTP server you should keep the poll
interval as high as possible – at the absolute minimum every few hours or even days.
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