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-**Router Time:** displays the router's current date, time and time zone. These are expressed as offset from UTC (Universal Time Coordinated) standard.
+**Router Time:** displays the router's current date, time and time zone.
-**Time Zone: **This allows you to select in which time zone your FreshTomato hardware resides.
+These are expressed as offset from UTC (Universal Time Coordinated) standard.
-**Auto Daylight Savings Time**
+ \\ {{:time-2.jpg?781x475}}
-  * Enabled: *  FreshTomato automatically adjusts the time/date to reflect DST.
+ \\
-  * Disabled:   FreshTomato uses Standard time settings.
- \\ \\  {{:time-2.jpg?781x475}}  \\   \\   \\  **Auto Update Time**: This chooses if/how to automatically update system time via synchronization with an NTP server.
+**Time Zone:** lets you select in which time zone your FreshTomato router resides. \\   \\ **Auto Daylight Savings Time**
-  * Never **-**  FreshTomato doesn't synchronize its clock time/date with \\ an NTP Time Server. NTP server names/addresses can still be configured, \\ they just won't be used if //Never// is selected.
+  * Enabled * - FreshTomato automatically adjusts the time/date to reflect DST.
-  * Only at Startup  **- **FreshTomato synchronizes time with one of the \\ configured NTP servers each time it boots, but not again afterwards. \\ If you need synchronization more often, or you have very long uptimes, \\ you may want to choose the //Auto Interval //option.
+  * Disabled - FreshTomato uses Standard time settings.
-  * Auto Interval **- ** forces FreshTomato to synchronize time with a \\ configured NTP server at a preset interval.
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-**NTP Time Server:** Here, choose the country/continent where your device resides. This will cause FreshTomato to automatically configure appropriate default time server addresses.  **Custom: **If you choose this option, address fields will appear in which you manually enter the domains or IP addresses of 3 NTP servers.
+**Auto Update Time**: chooses if/how to auto-update system time via synchronization with an NTP server.
-Note that if you select a geographical area, FreshTomato will still retain the NTP server addresses entered into the Custom fields, in case you later select Custom.
+ \\
-For a list of NTP servers, see here: [[http://support.ntp.org/servers|Public Time Server Lists]] .
+  * Never **-** FreshTomato doesn't synchronize its clock time/date with an\\ NTP Time Server. NTP server names/addresses can still be configured, \\ they just won't be used with this option selected.
+  * Only at Startup **- **FreshTomato synchronizes time with one of the \\ configured NTP servers at each boot, but not again afterwards. \\ If you need synchronization more often, or have very long uptimes, \\ you may want to choose the //Auto Interval //option.
+  * Auto Interval **- **forces FreshTomato to synchronize time with a \\ configured NTP server at a preset interval.
+ \\   \\ **NTP Time Server:**  lets you set the country/continent where your device is.
+This causes FreshTomato to automatically configure appropriate default time server addresses.
+ \\
+  * Custom - makes fields appear in which to enter DNS/IP addresses of 3 NTP servers.
+  * Default - uses "0.pool.ntp.org", "1.pool.ntp.org" and "2.pool.ntp.org".
+  * Choosing a Continent - uses the default NTP servers //for that continent//. \\ FreshTomato retains addresses in the Custom fields, in case you later select Custom.
+ \\
+For a list of NTP servers, see here: [[https://support.ntp.org/Servers/WebHome|Public Time Server Lists]] .
+For technical details, see the official NTP documentation: [[https://www.ntp.org/|ntp.org]].
+ \\
-For detailed technical documentation, see here: [[https://www.ntp.org/|ntp.org]].
+**Enable local NTP server:** enables the NTP server, so LAN clients can synchronize date/time directly with the router.
-**Enable local NTP server:** Checking this enables FreshTomato's local NTP server, so LAN client devices can synchronize time/date directly with the router/AP.  This option is available only if **Auto Update Time** is set to //Auto interval//.
+This is available only if **Auto Update Time** is set to //Auto interval//.
-  * //Intercept NTP client requests//: Enabling this makes FreshTomato intercept NTP client requests \\ outbound towards the WAN, so its own NTP server provides synchronization.
+  * Intercept LAN client NTP requests - makes FreshTomato intercept \\ WAN-bound NTP client requests so its NTP server provides synchronization.
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