What is the reason time is different in the log and clock?

[Zenith888]

Hi,

Looking at the 877 router log thru the web interface, I am seeing these last few lines:

Jul 18 15:30:02.630: %LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface ATM0, changed state to down
Jul 18 15:30:34.226: %LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface ATM0, changed state to up
Jul 18 15:30:48.262: %LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface Virtual-Access1, changed state to down
Jul 18 15:31:10.784: %LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface Virtual-Access1, changed state to up

The interesting thing is that current time on the router is:

12:32:29.924 EDT Sun Jul 18 2010
Time source is NTP
Summer time starts 02:00:00 EST Sun Mar 14 2010
Summer time ends 02:00:00 EDT Sun Nov 7 2010
cisco877#

I.e. the log shows either different time zone or just some random numbers. What am I doing wrong and how can I know what time the router's modem dropped DSL connection?

Thanks

Zen

[Giuseppe Larosa]

Hello Zen,

there is an option (localtime) in the command that specifies the use of date time in log messages

if you use

config t

service timestamps log datetime msec localtime

you should be able to have the same time in both log messages and on the router

see

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/ios/fundamentals/command/reference/cf_r1.html#wp1030116

Hope to help

Giuseppe

[Zenith888]

That's great. Can I also find out what time the logs currenly use so that I can provide correct down time to the ISP for investigation?

[Richard Burts · Accepted solution]

Zen

It appears that your log is using time that is local router time + 3 hours.

We might be able to provide better answers if you would post the output of show run | include time

HTH

Rick

[Zenith888]

cisco877#show run | include time

service timestamps debug datetime msec

service timestamps log datetime msec localtime

clock timezone EST -5

clock summer-time EDT recurring

ip http timeout-policy idle 60 life 86400 requests 10000

This feature requires the one-time use of the username "cisco"

scheduler max-task-time 5000

[Richard Burts]

Zen

Thank you for providing the information that I asked about. Would I be correct in assuming that you have already implemented the suggestion by Giuseppe to include localtime in the timestamps command?

From what you have posted I would expect that the timestamp in your log messages would now be the same as the time on the router. If that is not the case then please provide a new sample of log messages with time stamps and the ouput of show clock detail on the router at the time that the log messages were generated.

HTH

Rick