[asterisk-users] Polycom IP 501 is displaying wrong time

[Dave Miller]

Chris Mason (Lists) wrote on 4/19/07 6:10 AM:
> If your phone is getting its parameters by DHCP from a linux server, add
> the NTP server option  to that server:
> in /etc/dhcpd.conf
> option time-servers             192.168.0.3;
> 
> If your phone is getting an NTP server setting by DHCP server, you can't
> override that from any setting. I came across this where a polycome 501
> was connected to the internet directly and comcast was setting NTP to
> 10.10.x.x, which was ridiculous. Their tech support could never
> understand why this was a problem and would not address the problem
> despite repeated calls.

Also of note is that the time zone can also be set via DHCP, and if it
is, that can't be overridden in the phone, either.

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