Date & Time

The DATE & TIME page allows you to:

Manually set the date and time of the circuit breaker connected to the IFE server.
Automatically synchronize the date and time of the circuit breaker to the IFE server time.
Periodically check the synchronization at specified interval of time.

The users with Installer or Engineer role can change the date and time settings.

To view the DATE & TIME page, click SETTINGS > GENERAL > DATE & TIME.

Parameter	Description
Date and time setting mode	Allows you to select the date and time setting mode of the circuit breaker and its IMU devices: Select Manual (default setting) to set manually the date and time in the dedicated fields. Select Network Synchronization via NTP to set automatically the date and time by an external time server (NTP server).
Date	Allows you to set the present date manually in the format YYYY-MM-DD.
Time	Allows you to set the present time manually in the format hh:mm:ss.

Parameter

Description

Date and time setting mode

Allows you to select the date and time setting mode of the circuit breaker and its IMU devices:

Select Manual (default setting) to set manually the date and time in the dedicated fields.
Select Network Synchronization via NTP to set automatically the date and time by an external time server (NTP server).

Date

Allows you to set the present date manually in the format YYYY-MM-DD.

Time

Allows you to set the present time manually in the format hh:mm:ss.

Parameter	Description
NTP server setting mode	Allows you to select the NTP server setting mode: Select Obtain Servers Automatically via DHCP/BOOTP (default setting) to set the NTP servers automatically. Select Manual to set manually the NTP servers names or addresses.
Primary NTP server	Allows you to enter manually the primary NTP server address.
Secondary NTP server	Allows you to enter manually the secondary NTP server address.

Parameter

Description

NTP server setting mode

Allows you to select the NTP server setting mode:

Select Obtain Servers Automatically via DHCP/BOOTP (default setting) to set the NTP servers automatically.
Select Manual to set manually the NTP servers names or addresses.

Primary NTP server

Allows you to enter manually the primary NTP server address.

Secondary NTP server

Allows you to enter manually the secondary NTP server address.

NOTE:

When both the NTP servers are not reachable by IFE server and another IMU device is setting the date and time, the IFE server date and time setting mode falls back to Manual automatically.
When the time setting mode is set to Manual, Time Zone Offset is reset to 0.
IPv6 is not supported for NTP server address.

Follow this procedure to set the date and time of Modbus server devices of IFE server.

Step	Action	Result
1	From the IFE menu bar, click Settings.	Opens the Settings menu.
2	In the General submenu, click Date and Time.	The selection of server devices and Every box is available.
3	In Date and Time: Periodic Spreading, select Every check box and enter the time interval (you can enter value between 1 to 63 hours).	Allows you to enter the time interval in hours.
4	Select the server devices from the device list which supports date and time setting from external source.	The server devices get selected.
5	Click Apply Changes.	The date and time of the selected server devices get synchronized with the IFE server time immediately and also periodically as per the selected time interval.