User Guide

Page 43 SonicWALL Internet Security Appliance User’s Guide
Setting the Time and Date
1. Click the Time tab.
The SonicWALL uses the time and date settings to time stamp log events, to automatically
update the Content Filter List, and for other internal purposes.
2. Select your time zone from the Time Zone menu.
3. Click Update to add the information to the SonicWALL.
You can also enable automatic adjustments for daylight savings time, use universal
time (UTC) rather than local time, and display the date in International format,
with the day preceding the month.
To set the time and date manually, clear the check boxes and enter the time (in 24-hour
format) and the date.
NTP Settings
Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a protocol used to synchronize computer clock times
in a network of computers. NTP uses Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) to synchronize
computer clock times to a millisecond, and sometimes to a fraction of a millisecond. Select
Use NTP to set time automatically if you want to use your local server to set the
SonicWALL clock. You can also set the Update Interval for the NTP server to synchronize
the time in the SonicWALL. The default value is 60 minutes. You can add NTP servers to
the SonicWALL for time synchronization by typing in the IP address of an NTP server in the
Add NTP Server field. If there are no NTP Servers in the list, the internal NTP list is used
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