CESM is going to a system wide change where the restart rpointer text files will have the simulation timestamp in the filename. However, the model will still be backwards compatible to use the older filenames without it. But, new rpointer files created by the model will have the timestamp in the filename.
PR's for CTSM and MOSART for this work are here:
ESCOMP/CTSM#2757
ESCOMP/MOSART#105