The NTP clients must be configured so that they use the time information from the LANCOM. Not all operating systems provide an integrated NTP client: Windows XP does so, for other Windows operating systems a separate NTP client is required, Linux distributions have to be installed with NTP.
The settings of date and time in a XP system can be opened with a double click on the time at the bottom left, where you can select the server for synchronization.
- Configuring daylight-saving time change according to UTC
LANCOM devices work internally with the coordinated world time (UTC). For protocol displays and time-related settings (e.g. cron jobs), the local time is taken as calculated from the defined time zone. To take local daylight-saving time into account, settings can be configured according to requirements.
LANconfig: Date & time / General
WEBconfig: LCOS menu tree / Setup / Time / Daylight-saving time
- Daylight-saving time
- Off: The system time will not be adjusted to daylight-saving time.
- On: As long as this option is enabled, one hour is added statically to the current system time (comprised of UTC and time zone).
- Automatic (EU, USA, Russia): In this setting, the daylight-saving time change is performed automatically in conformance with the time zone of the device's location.
- Automatic (user-defined): If the device is located in an area that is not listed here, then the daylight-saving time change options can be manually defined by the user.