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Configuring date/time on the appliance

There are two ways to set the time on the appliance.

Method 1: Synchronizing with NTP

Newer appliances have been updated to include a daily cron job (scheduled task) to sync the date/time setting.

To enable advanced options, enter http://<applianceip>/setadv.php in the browser address bar, and set the flag to enabled¹.
Navigate to System Status – ADV Shell Scripts.
Enter the following, and click Submit:

yum install ntpdate -y
echo ntpdate pool.ntp.org > /etc/cron.daily/ntpdate
chmod 755 /etc/cron.daily/ntpdate
/etc/cron.daily/ntpdate

Method 2: Manual entry of date/time

1. Follow the above instructions to get to ADV Shell Scripts.

2. Enter the current date and time manually, using the following format

date -s “ddMMM YYYY HH:mm:ss”

3. Click Submit.

¹ For version 6.8.3a and earlier, the shell-script executor is located in the hidden menu. In the browser address bar, enter http://<applianceip>/admin/hidden.php. In the Appliance section, select Shell Script Executor. Enter the commands above.

Changing time zone on appliance

Category: Administration

To set the time zone on the appliance, do the following:

In your interface address bar, go to http://<IPaddress>/setadv.php and enable the adv flag setting
Go to the ‘System Status — ADV Shell Scripts (Pre v905 – Go to http://<applianceIP>/admin/hidden.php and select the shell script link)
Run the command:
cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/<Time zone city> /etc/localtime
Click Submit.
Enter the date. (date -s “ddMMM YYYY HH:mm:ss”)
Click Submit.
You should now be on the correct time zone.

Here is a breakdown of time zone cities:

Los_Angeles = Pacific Time Zone
Denver = Mountain Time Zone
Chicago = Central Time Zone
New_York = Eastern Time Zone

Also this path cp /usr/share/zoneinfo/US has files specifically for Pacific, Mountain, Central, and Eastern time zones.