topic How to change timezone on LWAPP AP in Wireless

How to change timezone on LWAPP AP

binhkdinh — Sun, 04 Jul 2021 01:18:59 GMT

LWAPP AP gets time from the WLC, and displays in UTC time, which is the correct time. Is there a way to change the timezone on the LWAPP AP? Links? Commands?

Thanks

-Binh

Re: How to change timezone on LWAPP AP

Leo Laohoo — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:22:31 GMT

No.

The AP gets it's time from the WLC via a CAPWAP AC Timestamp message (RFC-5415 sec. 4.6.6). Since the AP has no way to set the timezone, the AP will always use UTC.

How to change timezone on LWAPP AP

marklanc — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 18:33:57 GMT

In version 12.4(23), I see the following config mode commands:

accesspoint(config)#clock ?

initialize Initialize system clock on restart

save backup of clock with NVRAM

summer-time Configure summer (daylight savings) time

timezone Configure time zone

How to change timezone on LWAPP AP

Stephen Rodriguez — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 18:40:07 GMT

that would be correct for an IOS AP, but not for LWAPP/CAPWAP

HTH,
Steve

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How to change timezone on LWAPP AP

marklanc — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 18:58:40 GMT

Stephen, could you clarify? I am looking at an AIR-LAP1142N, which is running an LWAPP image via CAPWAP. I am able to use the config mode clock commands.

How to change timezone on LWAPP AP

Stephen Rodriguez — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 19:18:37 GMT

Those commands do not hold through a reboot. I just telneted to an AP and put the commands in, set the offset, saved and rebooted and the AP is back to UTC.

Generally if you have access to a command on a lightweight AP, what ever you change doesn't hold, since you are not able to actually save.

HTH,
Steve

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How to change timezone on LWAPP AP

marklanc — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 19:56:02 GMT

That is what I was missing. Great info, Steve. Thanks.

I am wondering if the ability to set the time zone via the WLC might be in an existing feature request.

How to change timezone on LWAPP AP

binhkdinh — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 20:10:50 GMT

I've tried that command. I even tried to save it to the local configs on ap (bad idea). Don't ever do that, it would mess up the LWAPP.