Time Synchronization Service Configuration Parameters
Original instructions
Introduction
In order to use the BMX NOE 01x0 modules with NTP, you must set the configuration parameters.
NOTE: The NTP feature is available only on V2 modules or later.
NTP Tab
The following procedure shows how to access the NTP tab from the index page:
Step
Action
1
Access the module configuration screen.
2
In the Module Utilities field, select Yes in the NTP menu.
3
Select the NTP tab. (See illustration below.)
The figure shows the NTP dialog box for BMX NOE 01x0 modules:
Configuring NTP
Configure or change the following parameters on the NTP configuration page:
  1. IP address of Primary NTP Server
    • Enter a valid IP address.
  2. IP address of Secondary NTP Server
    • Enter a valid IP address.
  3. Polling period (in seconds) (the time between time updates from the NTP server)
    Enter a value:
    • min = 1 sec
    • max = 120 sec
    • default = 5 sec
  4. Time Zone (see the following table for available times zones)
    • Select from drop-down menu.
      Universal Time, Coordinated (GMT) = default
    • Custom time zone
  5. Automatically adjust clock for daylight saving change
    • Parameter is selected by default (check mark appears) if daylight saving time is chosen.
Time Zones Available
Select a time zone the from drop-down menu.
Time Zone
Description
DST Available
Custom
Yes
(GMT-12:00)
Dateline Standard Time [Eniwetok Kwajalein]
No
(GMT-11:00)
Samoa Standard Time [Midway Is Samoa]
No
(GMT-10:00)
Hawaiian Standard Time [Hawaii Honolulu]
No
(GMT-09:00)
Alaskan Standard Time [Anchorage]
Yes
(GMT-08:00)
Pacific Standard Time [Los Angeles Tijuana]
Yes
(GMT-07:00)
Mexican Standard Time [Chihuahua La Paz Mazatlan]
Yes
(GMT-07:00)
Mountain Standard Time [Arizona Phoenix]
No
(GMT-07:00)
Mountain Standard Time [Denver]
Yes
(GMT-06:00)
Central Standard Time [Chicago]
Yes
(GMT-06:00)
Mexico Standard Time [Tegucigalpa]
No
(GMT-06:00)
Canada Central Standard Time [Saskatchewan Regina]
No
(GMT-06:00)
Central America Standard Time [Mexico_city]
Yes
(GMT-05:00)
SA Pacific Standard Time [Bogota Lima Quito]
No
(GMT-05:00)
Eastern Standard Time [New York]
Yes
(GMT-05:00)
Eastern Standard Time [Indiana (East)] [Indianapolis]
No
(GMT-04:00)
SA Western Standard Time [Caracas La Paz]
No
(GMT-04:00)
Pacific SA Standard Time [Santiago]
Yes
(GMT-03:30)
Newfoundland Standard Time [Newfoundland St Johns]
Yes
(GMT-03:00)
E. South America Standard Time [Brasilia Sao_Paulo]
Yes
(GMT-03:00)
SA Eastern Standard Time [Buenos Aires Georgetown]
No
(GMT-02:00)
Mid-Atlantic Standard Time [South_Georgia]
No
(GMT-01:00)
Azores Standard Time [Azores Cape Verde Island]
Yes
(GMT)
Universal Coordinated Time [Casablanca, Monrovia]
No
(GMT0)
Greenwich Mean Time [Dublin Edinburgh Lisbon London]
Yes
(GMT+01:00)
Romance Standard Time [Amsterdam CopenHagen Madrid Paris Vilnius]
Yes
(GMT+01:00)
Central European Standard Time [Belgrade Sarajevo Skopje Sofija Zagreb]
Yes
(GMT+01:00)
Central Europe Standard Time [Bratislava Budapest Ljubljana Prague Warsaw]
Yes
(GMT+01:00)
W. Europe Standard Time [Brussels Berlin Bern Rome Stockholm Vienna]
Yes
(GMT+02:00)
GTB Standard Time [Athens Istanbul Minsk]
Yes
(GMT+02:00)
E. Europe Standard Time [Bucharest]
Yes
(GMT+02:00)
Egypt Standard Time [Cairo]
Yes
(GMT+02:00)
South Africa Standard Time [Johannesburg Harare Pretoria]
No
(GMT+02:00)
FLE Standard Time [Helsinki Riga Tallinn]
Yes
(GMT+02:00)
Israel Standard Time [Israel Jerusalem]
Yes
(GMT+03:00)
Arabic Standard Time [Baghdad]
Yes
(GMT+03:00)
Arab Standard Time [Kuwait Riyadh]
No
(GMT+03:00)
Russian Standard Time [Moscow St. Petersburg Volgograd]
Yes
(GMT+03:00)
E. Africa Standard Time [Nairobi]
No
(GMT+03:30)
Iran Standard Time [Tehran]
Yes
(GMT+04:00)
Arabian Standard Time [Abu Dhabi Muscat]
No
(GMT+04:00)
Caucasus Standard Time [Baku Tbilisi]
Yes
(GMT+04:00)
Afghanistan Standard Time [Kabul]
No
(GMT+05:00)
Ekaterinburg Standard Time [Ekaterinburg]
Yes
(GMT+05:00)
West Asia Standard Time [Islamabad Karachi Tashkent]
No
(GMT+05:30)
India Standard Time [Bombay Calcutta Madras New Delhi]
No
(GMT+06:00)
Central Asia Standard Time [Almaty Dhaka]
Yes
(GMT+06:00)
Sri Lanka Standard Time [Columbo]
No
(GMT+07:00)
SE Asia Standard Time [Bangkok Hanoi Jakarta]
No
(GMT+08:00)
China Standard Time [Beijing Chongqing Hong Kong Urumqi]
No
(GMT+08:00)
W. Australia Standard Time [Perth]
No
(GMT+08:00)
Singapore Standard Time [Singapore]
No
(GMT+08:00)
Taipei Standard Time [Taipei]
No
(GMT+09:00)
Tokyo Standard Time [Osako Sapporo Tokyo]
No
(GMT+09:00)
Korea Standard Time [Seoul]
No
(GMT+09:00)
Yakutsk Standard Time [Yakutsk]
Yes
(GMT+09:30)
Cen. Australia Standard Time [Adelaide]
Yes
(GMT+09:30)
AUS Central Standard Time [Darwin]
No
(GMT+10:00)
E. Australia Standard Time [Brisbane]
No
(GMT+10:00)
AUS Eastern Standard Time [Canberra Melbourne Sydney]
Yes
(GMT+10:00)
West Pacific Standard Time [Guam Port Moresby]
No
(GMT+10:00)
Tasmania Standard Time [Hobart]
Yes
(GMT+10:00)
Vladivostok Standard Time [Vladivostok]
Yes
(GMT+11:00)
Central Pacific Standard Time [Magadan Solomon Is New Caledonia]
Yes
(GMT+12:00)
New Zealand Standard Time [Auckland Wellington]
Yes
(GMT+12:00)
Fiji Standard Time [Fiji Kamchatka Marshall Is]
No
Important Information about the Time Service
NOTE: Without an SD card in an NOE module, time zones will not function correctly when changing from daylight saving time.
Customizing Time Zone Parameters
If you want a time zone not listed in the time zone table:
Step
Action
Comment
1
Write the text rules for the custom time zone.
If you want more information, the syntax to write those rules along with a few examples are found in the module in:
/FLASH0/wwwroot/conf/NTP/instructions.txt
2
Using an FTP client, store your rules in the file:
/FLASH0/wwwroot/conf/NTP/customrules
user ID: ntpupdate
password: ntpupdate
Root directory to store 'customrules' is set by the FTP server as
/FLASH0/wwwroot/conf/NTP
3
When the rules are written, choose the drop down menu on the NTP configuration screen, and configure (or reboot) the module by selecting:
Time Zone = Custom
The NTP component looks for customrules, calls the tz compiler, and generates a new file called 'tz_custom'. This file is binary file and should not be edited.
If the tz compiler detects a syntax error in customrules, the syntax error is logged in the file:
/FLASH0/wwwroot/conf/NTP/error.log
  1. NTP component is not launched.
  2. NTP Status field in the diagnostic screen displays NOT OK.