Good Day, I have been tasked with fixing the time on our asterisk server. I am having a hard time finding documentation to tell my what asterisk uses to get its time information to push to phones (or a better question, where does the SPA-962 get its time information)? Basically, I can go under the settings of the phone and change the offset to set the correct hour, but it is still about 4 minutes fast. So the SPA-962 has an offset option, but to offset it from what? The time on the asterisk server? That isn?t right because my asterisk server has the correct time. To offset from GMT? No because I am +6 from GMT not +2. I can physically set the time, but that isn?t the best solution when you have many phones, shouldn?t the phone be syncing with something? Any thoughts? I am not finding anything conclusive. Steve Anness ICT Support Analyst Humanitarian International Services Group -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-users/attachments/20081104/f1f7c072/attachment.htm
> On 4 Nov 2008, at 14:17, Steve Anness wrote:> Duplicated stuff Just the one post is usual sufficient. On topic - I would check what the NTP server is set to on the SPA.
Steve Anness wrote:> Good Day, > > I have been tasked with fixing the time on our asterisk server. I am > having a hard time finding documentation to tell my what asterisk uses > to get its time information to push to phones (or a better question, > where does the SPA-962 get its time information)?Asterisk does not push time to the phones. The phones themselves will contact an NTP server to obtain the correct time.> Basically, I can go under the settings of the phone and change the > offset to set the correct hour, but it is still about 4 minutes fast. > So the SPA-962 has an offset option, but to offset it from what? The > time on the asterisk server? That isn?t right because my asterisk > server has the correct time. To offset from GMT? No because I am +6 > from GMT not +2. > I can physically set the time, but that isn?t the best solution when > you have many phones, shouldn?t the phone be syncing with something? > Any thoughts? I am not finding anything conclusive.Best practice is to configure ntpd as both a server and client on your Asterisk server and point your phones to it. That way your phones will have exactly the same time as your Asterisk server.