Nexus 5000: Configure CEST

Since I’m living and working in Germany, most of my hardware is using timezone configuration for CEST (or Europe/Berlin).

This here is the simple configuration for our Nexus 5000’s:

MDS9000: Setting summer time for CET

After rebuilding two MDS9148, I wanted them to correctly switch the summer/winter time for my time zone. Currently I’m in CET (or CEST during the summer), so I googled for that. The search came up with Cisco-FAQ, however that needed a slight adjustment.

Apparently the NXOS doesn’t support the feature “recurring” in the clock configuration. So I had to slightly adapt the configuration line: