Losing System time

You didn't say anything about the type of time server this is, so I presume it's the only one in the network, and it's a Single Reference?
First of all, make sure you're on the latest patch level - including for your hardware. Certain motherboards (ASUS is a known one) have BIOS incompatibilities with NW5.x, and offer a BIOS upgrade at their site.
Then, double-check your hardware is compatible with NW5. We've had a similar issue with an old HP Netserver, and it turned out that that one was not supported by HP for NetWare 5.
For certain NW5 versions there is a patch available that solves just this issue - see TID 2958591 for details.

Jim

I have seen similar problems in Netware 5.0 caused by a faulty version of TIMESYNC.NLM. I would try checking your version of this file on the server, and try using an older version (make sure you backup your current file). I know v5.09 from NW5SP2 worked, as should v5.07 from the original installation CD for Netware 5

Look at the timesyn.nlm issue already mentioned, but you didn't mention whether or not you had IDE drives or CDROM installed. Novell has had to update these drivers because of timesynch issues.

I started losing time after I installed sp1. There is a recent TID out about if you want to use the hardware clock, you must set it as a reference time server, and configure the ntp to use 127.0.0.1; as a loop back. It also said that you may have to use the ip address of the server if it is congested... TID # 10023130

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