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Before asking the question, I'll mention:
  • I'm running Windows Home 23H2
  • I restart my computer at the end of every day - except on rare power failures, it never shuts down and cold starts
  • "Fast start" is grayed out in my settings

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I think the above answers questions I've seen come up in other threads.

Earlier this week I noticed that my clock was about 25 seconds ahead of actual (time.gov) time, and that no internet time sync had happened since I upgraded from Windows 10 to Windows 11 weeks earlier.

I read several threads here, and the easiest suggestion seemed to be to use the task scheduler to do a sync. So I set this up to happen for a time that the computer happens to be up and awake every day.

Yet I just looked, and the last sync was a manual one I did 2 1/2 days ago, and the clock is already four seconds fast (no big deal, but project this out over the course of weeks or months).

So what am I supposed to do, other than a daily manual sync, to keep the clock reflecting to-the-second reality?
 

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112022 said:
Before asking the question, I'll mention:
  • I'm running Windows Home 23H2
  • I restart my computer at the end of every day - except on rare power failures, it never shuts down and cold starts
  • "Fast start" is grayed out in my settings

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I think the above answers questions I've seen come up in other threads.

Earlier this week I noticed that my clock was about 25 seconds ahead of actual (time.gov) time, and that no internet time sync had happened since I upgraded from Windows 10 to Windows 11 weeks earlier.

I read several threads here, and the easiest suggestion seemed to be to use the task scheduler to do a sync. So I set this up to happen for a time that the computer happens to be up and awake every day.

Yet I just looked, and the last sync was a manual one I did 2 1/2 days ago, and the clock is already four seconds fast (no big deal, but project this out over the course of weeks or months).

So what am I supposed to do, other than a daily manual sync, to keep the clock reflecting to-the-second reality?
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You could try setting the time with a different time server, although I have no experience with that as a solution. See below;

Try using a different time server: You can try using a different time server to see if that resolves the issue. To do this, open the Date and Time settings in Windows, click on “Additional date, time, & regional settings”, then click on “Set the time and date”. In the new window, click on the “Internet Time” tab, then click on “Change settings”. From there, you can enter the address of a different time server and click on “Update now” to see if that helps.
 

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Sir_George said:
You could try setting the time with a different time server, although I have no experience with that as a solution. See below;

Try using a different time server: You can try using a different time server to see if that resolves the issue. To do this, open the Date and Time settings in Windows, click on “Additional date, time, & regional settings”, then click on “Set the time and date”. In the new window, click on the “Internet Time” tab, then click on “Change settings”. From there, you can enter the address of a different time server and click on “Update now” to see if that helps.
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I'd actually tried changing the time server. The above post from @glasskuter seems to have some teeth though; my Windows Time service was set to Manual, and I just changed it to Automatic.
 

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Per @glasskuter the setting the Windows Time service to Automatic seems to have done the trick:

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I have no idea why the sync happened at 10:36 last night, a pretty random time. But I'm glad it happened on its own!
 

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112022 said:
"Fast start" is grayed out in my settings
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That is correct (well the default anyway) and the tick shows that Fast Start is enabled.

Just for info and I've posted on this before...

Curiously when you disable Fast Start (by clicking 'change settings that are currently unavailable' at the top of that page) my experience has been that the clock then does not sync automatically. That has been across many builds and clean installs over several years and on two different PC's so it is/was a 'real' issue if you do that.
 

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Mooly said:
Curiously when you disable Fast Start (by clicking 'change settings that are currently unavailable' at the top of that page) my experience has been that the clock then does not sync automatically.
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I have not observed this.
 

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112022 said:
I have no idea why the sync happened at 10:36 last night, a pretty random time.
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In my system, the sync seems to happen (at the server 'time.windows.com') every 9 hours 6 minutes. I think that's a time interval chosen such that not all PCs will try to sync at exactly the same time and the time server would be overloaded every hour while all over the world are doing it exactly at (for instance) their time 24:00 (local time). By using such an rather silly interval the timing will be very coincidental and so spread over the day equally.
 

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glasskuter said:
I have not observed this.
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It was certainly a strange one.

Thread is here:
www.elevenforum.com

When did your clock last synchronise?

I noticed the clock was about 20 seconds in error today and on checking the 'last synced' date was surprised to see 01/01/22 Clicking sync now worked correctly and it re-synced. The date seems odd, more than just coincidence that it should be 01/01. If I look at 'date and time' in control panel...
www.elevenforum.com www.elevenforum.com

Have a look at post #13
 

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