RT-N66U -380.69_2 (legacy) - Time keeps going out

[Bill Venables]

After installing this version, at midnight the date changes to August 1st. I have set the router to reboot at 3.00 am and this sorts out the problem until midnight the following day. Any ideas what is causing this? Not sure when the next release is due but maybe this will sort it?

 

[ColinTaylor]

Are you sure it's changing at midnight? It sounds more like your reboot at 03:00 is causing it. The reboot will cause the date to reset until the router has had a chance to re-sync with the NTP servers.

 

[Bill Venables]

Thanks for the helpful advice. I hadn't appreciated that when the router reboots, the time is lost. So midnight was probably three.

 

[FreshJR]

Systemlog entries are always in chronological order so even if you notice a timestamp issue, you know that it was issued between its surrounding correctly timed commands.

If the large descrepency bothers you then on a scheduled reboot this could close the gap significantly

1)to save the time into a file
2)soft reboot
3) zero the time with the time in the file instead of instead of epoch time
4) delete the file immediately after so the time doesn't backdate on any unexpected power cycle

(It will still be offset for however long the reboot takes to complete until next ntp update)

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OR

Check system log after bootup for ntp descrepency notifications.

Rewrite system log updating all epoch times according to discrepancy found so they are all correct.