Beagleboard Time and Date Setting Changes Intermittently on Power-up

My Boot.Configuration “Time and date” setting changes from “Set from the network” to “Set manually”. Fault occurs intermittently on power-up. Because I don’t have battery backup the default time and date is set (1am, 2/1/70). A re-boot is required to correct it.

What is likely to cause this?

I have tried various EtherUSB and Nettime re-initialisations in Obeyfiles all to no effect.

RISC OS 5.19 (14-Mar-13)

Sounds like you could be suffering from the intermittent ‘Resolver’ not working problem.
Next time it happens try pinging your time server. e.g. ‘ping uk.pool.ntp.org’.
If it hangs try from a taskwindow,

rmreinit resolver
nettime_kick
time

If that doesn’t work try updating to the lastest rom or if you’re using dhcp maybe this is failing.

Thanks for your response – I’ll keep you posted.

I’ve noticed the Resolver module (0.69) is dated 11 Jul 2004 – so quite old.