RouterOS system utilities

Clock, time zone, NTP

Time matters for logs, the scheduler, certificates, IPsec and RADIUS. RouterOS keeps UTC and applies the zone. Without a time source a router that boots without saved time shows 1970-01-02.

/system/clock/print
/system/clock/set time-zone-autodetect=no time-zone-name=Europe/Riga
/system/ntp/client/set enabled=yes servers=pool.ntp.org
/system/ntp/client/print                         # status: synchronized, synced-server, system-offset
/system/ntp/server/set enabled=yes               # serve time to the LAN (allow UDP 123 in input)