Changing the Time Zone

In this section:

If a need arises to change the time zone outside of the installation process, perform one of the procedures below.

Changing the time zone forces a restart of the

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application (for HA, both servers are affected) which causes a service outage for a few minutes.

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recommends changing the time zone only during a system maintenance window.

Change Time Zone From EMA

From the EMA menu bar, select System Configuration > CDR and Servers > NTP Server

NTP Server
Select the system name from Time Zone drop-down menu. The system name and current time zone details display.

Time Zone drop down menu
Click the Edit icon next to the drop-down menu. The Edit Time Zone dialog displays.

Edit Time Zone
Select a new time zone from the Zone drop-down list, and click the Save icon.

The application restarts (in HA configuration, the application restarts on both

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s), and will take a few minutes to complete.

Once the system comes back up, the new time zone is in effect.

To view current time zone, enter command:

% show system ntp timeZone 
  timeZone FINCH { 
  zone gmtMinus07-Mountain; 
  }

Enter following command to change time zone:

% set system ntp timeZone <SYSTEM NAME> zone <time zone>

To commit changes, enter commit and respond y when prompted.

% commit

The following warnings were generated:

'system ntp timeZone FINCH': Changing timezone will restart application and impact service. Do you wish to continue? 
 Proceed? [yes,no] y

The application restarts (in HA configuration, the application restarts on both

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s).

Once the system comes back up, the new time zone is in effect.