The Time page displays and allows configuration of various time, time zone and NTP (Network Time Protocol) settings.

Router Time: displays the router's current date, time and time zone.

These are expressed as offset from UTC (Universal Time Coordinated) standard.

Time Zone: This allows you to select in which time zone your FreshTomato hardware resides.

Auto Daylight Savings Time

• Enabled * - FreshTomato automatically adjusts the time/date to reflect DST.
• Disabled - FreshTomato uses Standard time settings.

Auto Update Time: Chooses if/how to automatically update system time via synchronization with an NTP server.

• Never - FreshTomato doesn't synchronize its clock time/date with
  an NTP Time Server. NTP servers 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 you 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: Here, choose the country/continent where your device resides.

This will cause FreshTomato to automatically configure appropriate default time server addresses. Custom: Choosing this option causes address fields to appear in which to enter the domains/IP addresses of 3 NTP servers.

If you select a geographical area, FreshTomato still retains the NTP server addresses in the Custom fields, in case you later select Custom.

For a list of NTP servers, see here: Public Time Server Lists .

For detailed technical documentation, see here: ntp.org.

Enable local NTP server: Enables FreshTomato's local NTP server, so LAN clients can synchronize date/time directly with the router. This is available only if Auto Update Time is set to Auto interval.

• Intercept NTP client requests - Enabling this makes FreshTomato intercept outgoing
  (wan-bound) NTP client requests so its own NTP server provides synchronization.