How do you program the date on a Lucent phone system

I am betting the time and date is wrong as well.
Sounds like your system lost its programming.
call in a professional, they need to reprogram the entire system.

Changing the time on a Partner system is done on either ext 10 or 11. At one of those ext's press the feature key and "00"
next press the left hand intercom twice
the display should say system programming
enter in "#103"
the display should say system time and the current programmed time
enter the new time in 24 hour format
To change the date enter #101
the display will say system date and the current programmed date
enter in the new date in MMDDYY format
press feature "00" to logout

As far as setting up the extensions, I'm going to need a little more specific info to help.

Changing the time on a Partner system is done on either ext 10 or 11. At one of those ext's press the feature key and "00"
next press the left hand intercom twice
the display should say system programming
enter in "#103"
the display should say system time and the current programmed time
enter the new time in 24 hour format to change the date enter #101 the display will say "system date" and the current data enter in the date in MMDDYY format
press feature "00" to logout

Programming can be done from either extensions 10 or 11.

Changing the time on a Partner system is done on either ext 10 or 11. At one of those ext's press the feature key and "00"
next press the left hand intercom twice
the display should say system programming
enter in "#101"
the display should say system date and the current programmed data
enter the new date in MM,DD,YY format
press feature "00" to logout

Changing the date on a Partner system is done on either ext 10 or 11. At one of those ext's press the feature key and "00"
next press the left hand intercom twice
the display should say system programming
enter in "#101"
the display should say system date and the current programmed date
enter the new date in mmddyy format
press feature "00" to logout

The time and date is a system feature rather than an individual telephone feature. To change the date in the Legend Magix system, from the System Programming console: 1.- Press Menu 2.- Press System Program. 3.- Press Exit or Start. 4.- Press System. 5.- Press Date. 6.- Enter date in following format: mmddyy (where MM is the month, DD is the day, and YY is the year). 7.- Press Enter. 8.- Press Exit or Back. 9.- Press Home or Exit to exit programming mode. To change the time in the Legend Magix system, from the System Programming console: 1.- Press Menu. 2.- Press System Program. 3.- Press Exit or Start 4.- Press System. 5.- Press Time. 6.- Enter the time in military/24 hour format: HH:MM (where HH is the hour, 01-24, and MM is minutes, 00-60). 7.- Press Enter. 8.- Press Exit or Back. 9.- Press Home or Exit to exit programming mode.

Is the time and date correct? Your system could have lost it's programming.

From the phone at extension 10 or 11 press FEATURE 00 Left Intercom Left Intercom #103 and enter the 4 digit military time. (if you need it, the date is #101 in mmddyy format).

Press FEATURE to exit

Carl

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