Discussion

You should not confuse the NTP stratum with the telco concept of clocking stratum,
which describes frequency accuracy.
The JUNOS implementation of NTP is based on the FreeBSD ntpd utility.
For more information about NTP, see http://www.ntp.org, the web site of the NTP
research and development project, as well as the documentation page of the NTP
Public Services Project (http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Main/DocumentationIndex).
6.1 Setting the Date and Time on the Router
Manually
Problem
You want to manually set the date and the local time on the router.
Solution
You set the date and time from operational mode:
aviva@router1> set date 200503171626
Thu Mar 17 16:26:00 UTC 2005
Discussion
On a relatively simple network, you can manually set the date and the local time on
the routers in your network so you can keep an accurate record of all events that
occur on the routers.
To set the local time, use the set date command, which is an operational mode command.
This example sets the year, month, date, hour, and minute. For more accuracy,
you can include the seconds:
aviva@router1> set date 200503151049.30
After you have set the date and time, the router uses these values in any commands
that include the date, in log and tracing files, and in the filesystems when marking
files with the date and time. Use the show system uptime command to find out the
current time. This command is similar to the Unix uptime utility.
aviva@router1> show system uptime
Current time: 2005-03-15 19:05:08 UTC
System booted: 2005-03-15 11:09:57 UTC (07:55:11 ago)
Protocols started: 2005-03-15 11:11:31 UTC (07:53:37 ago)
Last configured: 2005-03-15 19:05:04 UTC (00:00:04 ago) by aviva
7:05PM up 7:55, 1 user, load averages: 0.07, 0.02, 0.01
This command also shows other information about the router, including when it was
last booted (the first line) and how long it has been up (the last line), when the protocol
software started, and when the configuration was last changed.
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