Windows 11 with WSL2 the WSL date and time does not sync

Question

I have WSL Ubuntu 20.4 LTS installed on Windows 11 with all the latest updates. I noticed my Git commit times being as much as 24 hours off and realized that the date/time in WSL drifts out of time.

I can get it to sync up temporarily by running the following command in WSL window: sudo ntpdate time.windows.com So I thought my solution would be to run sudo crontab -e and set up a cron job to run that command every 15 minutes. Well, it doesn't work. I can only run the command manually, seems like nothing in cron actually executes (maybe because the date time is off?)

Obviously it is a pain in the butt to run this command constantly. I need either a solution or a workaround. I know how to program, so any ideas would be appreciated. I'm willing to write a script or whatever so my clock can stay synced! Thanks!

PS - there is strangely no tag for WSL or Windows Subsystem for Linux

Answer 1

The product group for WSL actively monitors questions over at
https://github.com/microsoft/WSL#readme
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/windows-subsystem-for-linux?tab=Newest

also this one may be of interest
https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/8204

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