NTP

It is very simple to setup NTP. In summary here is the 3 steps.

1) Set the timezone

2) Set the time via CLI to get an immediate update

3) Sync up with an NTP source for persistent time sync.

Below is the steps fleshed out.

Set and show date/time

root@UPPER-210> set date ?

Possible completions:

  <time>               New date and time (YYYYMMDDhhmm.ss)

  ntp                  Set system date and time using Network Time Protocol servers

root@UPPER-210> set date 201112301006.00

Fri Dec 30 10:06:00 UTC 2011

root@UPPER-210> show system uptime

Current time: 2011-12-30 10:06:06 UTC

System booted: 2011-12-01 11:08:54 UTC (4w0d 22:57 ago)

Protocols started: 2011-12-01 11:11:11 UTC (4w0d 22:54 ago)

Last configured: 2011-12-01 12:42:59 UTC (4w0d 21:23 ago) by root

10:06AM  up 28 days, 22:57, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

Model: srx210he
JUNOS Software Release [11.1R1.10]