Administrator Guide
Setting the time and date
To congure the time and date settings:
1 From the desktop menu, click the System Setup, and then click System Preferences.
The System Preference dialog box is displayed.
2 Click the Time/Date tab, and use the following guidelines:
a Time Zone— Select a time zone where the thin client operates from the drop-down list. Default value is Unspecied.
b Enable Daylight Saving— Allows you to enable the daylight saving settings. When selected, the Start Date and End Date boxes
must be properly congured to dene the daylight saving starting (month/week/day) and ending (month/week/day) periods.
Use the following guidelines to enter the Start date and End date:
• Month— Species the month in the year from January through December.
• Week— Select 1 through 4 for the week in the month. Week last denotes the last week in the month.
• Day — Species the day of the week from Monday through Sunday.
c Time Format — Allows you to select the 12 or 24-hour time format. default is 24-hour format.
d Date Format — Allows you to select the yyyy/mm/dd (year/month/day) or dd/mm/yyyy (day/month/year) date format.
Default is yyyy/mm/dd.
e Time Servers — List of IP addresses or host names with optional TCP port number of Time Servers.
Each entry with optional port number is specied as Name-or-IP: port, where: port is optional. If not specied, port 80 is used.
Locations can be supplied through user proles if user proles are used. The Time Servers provide the thin client time based on
the settings of time zone and daylight saving information. If DHCP is used, locations can be supplied through DHCP.
f Change Date and Time — Allows you to change date and time for secure environments requiring a solution to outside server
access. When connecting to a le server over HTTPS, the proper time must be dened on the thin client for SSL/ certication
validation.
3 Click OK to save the settings.
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