Dell PowerVault ME5 Series Storage System CLI Reference Guide

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set controller-date


Description	Sets the date and time parameters for the system. You can set the date and time manually or configure the system to communicate with a Network Time Protocol (NTP) server. Alternatively, you can configure NTP by using the set ntp-parameters command. NOTE: If you specify valid NTP parameters and manual date/time parameters in the same command, the NTP parameters will take precedence. If the NTP server cannot be contacted, the date and time will not be changed and no error message will be displayed. If you specify the timestamp parameter and other manual date/time parameters in the same command, the timestamp parameter will take precedence. If you change the time zone of the secondary system in a replication set whose primary and secondary systems are in different time zones, you must restart the system to enable management interfaces to show proper time values for replication operations.
Minimum role	standard
Syntax	To set the date and time manually: set controller-date jan\|feb\|mar\|apr\|may\|jun\|jul\|aug\|sep\|oct\|nov\|dec day hh:mm:ss year To set the date and time manually by specifying a timestamp: set controller-dat timestamp `timestamp` timezone +\|-`hh`[:`mm`] To configure use of NTP: set controller-date ntp enabled\|disabled\|on\|off ntpaddress `address` timezone +\|-`hh`[:`mm`]
Parameters	jan\|feb\|mar\|apr\|may\|jun\|jul\|aug\|sep\|oct\|nov\|dec The month. day The day number (1–31). hh:mm:ss The hour (0–23), the minutes (0–59), and the seconds (0–59). year The year as a four-digit number. ntp enabled\|disabled\|on\|off Enables or disables use of NTP. When NTP is enabled and the specified NTP server is available, the time on each controller is synchronized with the server. This is disabled by default. ntpaddress `address` The network address of an available NTP server. The value can be an IPv4 address, IPv6 address, or FQDN. timezone +\|-hh[:mm] The system time zone as an offset in hours (-12 through +14) and optionally minutes (00–59) from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). To specify a positive offset, the '+' is optional. To specify a negative offset, the '-' is required. The hour value can have one or two digits and can omit a leading zero. If the minutes value is specified it must have two digits. If it is omitted, the minutes value is set to 00. timestamp `timestamp` The date and time represented as the number of seconds (not counting leap seconds) that have elapsed since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC. The resulting time will be in UTC, unless you also specify the timezone parameter.
Examples	Manually set the system time and date to 1:45 PM on September 22, 2011. # set controller-date sep 22 13:45:0 2011 Manually set the system date and time to 4:30:50 PM on November 2, 2011 by specifying a timestamp and an offset for the Central Time zone. # set controller-date timestamp 1320273050 timezone -6 Set the system to use NTP with an offset for the Mountain Time zone. # set controller-date ntp enabled ntpaddress 69.10.36.3 timezone -7 Set the system to use NTP with an offset for the Bangalore, India, time zone. # set controller-date ntp enabled ntpaddress 69.10.36.3 timezone +5:30
See also	set ntp-parameters show controller-date show ntp-status