topic Re: Time Zone Change ONTAP 9 in ONTAP Discussions

Time Zone Change ONTAP 9

jimb32 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 09:49:36 GMT

Our AFF points to 2 NTP servers in the US Central time zone. The time zone setting for the AFF is also in US/Central. We're sending syslog to a cloud service and it's preferred to have it in UTC so we're being asked to change the time zone on the AFF. Should I have any concerns about doing this? I know cron jobs go off the system time so I can adjust for that. I assume changing the time zone will just change the displayed system time but kerberos should remain in sync due to the NTP servers. Can anyone confirm?

Re: Time Zone Change ONTAP 9

hari2hari — Tue, 02 May 2023 16:29:00 GMT

https://kb.netapp.com/onprem/ontap/os/What_impact_does_a_timezone_change_have

Re: Time Zone Change ONTAP 9

TMACMD — Tue, 02 May 2023 16:38:47 GMT

As long as the universal times are close, you should be fine regardless of timezone.
you can check your Netapp from the command line: date -u

that should give you time in UTC.

Timezones are for humans. UTC is for machines.