User`s manual

Signamax 065-1600 series managed media converter

Publication date: October, 2005

Revision 1.0

3-4-1-3. System Time Setting

Signamax 065-1600 series provides manual and automatic ways to set the

system time via NTP. Manual setting is simple and you just input “Year”, “Month”,

“Day”, “Hour”, “Minute” and “Second” within the valid value range indicated in each

item. If you input an invalid value, for example, 61 in minute, the converter will

clamp the figure to 59.

NTP is a well-known protocol used to synchronize the clock of the Signamax

065-1600 series system time over a network. NTP, an internet draft standard

formalized in RFC 1305, has been adopted on the system is version 3 protocol.

Signamax 065-1600 series provides four built-in NTP server IP addresses resided

in the Internet and a user-defined NTP server IP address. The time zone is

Greenwich-centered which uses the expression form of GMT+/- xx hours.

Function name:

System Time Setting

Function description:

Set the system time by manual input or set it by syncing from Time servers.

The function also supports daylight saving for different area’s time adjustment.

Parameter description:

Manual:

This is the function to adjust the time manually. Filling the valid figures in

the fields of Year, Month, Day, Hour, Minute and Second respectively and

press <Apply> button, time is adjusted. The valid figures for the

parameter Year, Month, Day, Hour, Minute and Second are >=2000, 1-12,

1-31, 0-23, 0-59 and 0-59 respectively. Input the wrong figure and press

<Apply> button, the device will reject the time adjustment request. There

is no time zone setting in Manual mode.

Default: Year = 2000, Month = 1, Day = 1

Hour = 0, Minute = 0, Second = 0