Setting the time zone

About this task

The default time zone is Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The time zone must be set only once because the value is stored in nonvolatile memory. Use the following procedure to set the time zone.

Procedure

Use the tsTimeZone --interactive command and follow the prompts, or enter the tsTimeZone [houroffset [, minuteoffset]] command as follows:

For Pacific Standard Time, enter tsTimeZone -8,0.

For Central Standard Time, enter tsTimeZone -6,0.

For Eastern Standard Time, enter tsTimeZone -5,0.

Table 1. tsTimeZone command parameter selection for the US time zones
Local time	tsTimeZone parameter (difference from UTC)
Atlantic Standard	-4,0
Atlantic Daylight	-3,0
Eastern Standard	-5,0
Eastern Daylight	-4,0
Central Standard	-6,0
Central Daylight	-5,0
Mountain Standard	-7,0
Mountain Daylight	-6,0
Pacific Standard	-8,0
Pacific Daylight	-7,0
Alaskan Standard	-9,0
Alaskan Daylight	-8,0
Hawaiian Standard	-10,0