Windows time failed to sync

Question

My clock is 1 hour ahead. Trying to sync it manually gives the error message "time synchronization failed" and trying to set the windows time server to "time.nist.gov" gives the error message: "An error occured while windows was synchronizing with 'time.nist.gov'. This operation returned because the timeout period expired"

I've tried to set my time manually however some games will not work because of it.

Any help would be appreciated :)

Answer 1

Hi, iliya m.

Welcome to Microsoft Community.

We understand that you have encountered the problem that Windows time cannot be synchronized. We suggest that you check whether your time zone corresponds to your region in Settings-Time and Date, and then try the following scheme:

1. this pc (right-click)-Manage-Service-Find Windows time- Right-click Properties-Change the service status (stop before starting) and change the startup type to automatic.
2. Settings-Region and Language-Date and Time, which will automatically set the time off and then on.
3. Settings-region and language-date and time, add clocks in different time zones in the upper right corner, lnternet time-change settings-choose any server-update immediately.

Sincerely

Nicholas | Microsoft Community Support Specialist

Answer 2

Hello,

The solutions you provided did not solve my issue. Trying to set the system time to Automatic after restarting it results in a very long loading icon which in the end, does not fix the system time being an hour ahead. Are there any other solutions i could perhaps try?

Thank you for your time.

Answer 3

Hi, iliya m.

Welcome to Microsoft Community.

Thank you for your reply, have you tried changing time servers? If not, I suggest you try, as I mentioned in my first reply, you can use Google time server " time.google.com ".

Sincerely

Nicholas | Microsoft Community Support Specialist

Answer 4

Both my windows 10 and Windows 11 systems stopped syncing. All this talk about changing language and making sure its in the same zone. Do Microsoft technicians think we move our desktops around and just decide to randomly change language and location ? My two computers worked fine, now they do not. I have rechecked the router, there are no problems there and I have DMZ'd each computer to try this despite not needing it in the past.

The problem is a TIME OUT but when I use a third party time sync, it works instantaneously.

This is a typical problem with Microsoft that they not only refuse to address, they gaslight the community into thinking it is not a Microsoft fault.

Reaching a time server is not rocket science. It has been a fundamental role of the internet to provide time synchronization ability, even before we had WWW, as in Archie, Veronica, Gopher, FTP, IRC, Newsgroups and so on. We had time sync back then.

So stop making excuses MS and patch this !

Answer 5

Come on, for real ..??

Microsoft agent advising not to use the Windows' default NTP server (aka microsoft server), but to use Google's server instead. What about Apple NTP server ? LMAO. That's beyond irony.

I'm administrating a small size park of about a hundred computers, and it's very common that I see that issue popping up, clearly something wrong either on windows NTP service or Microsoft NTP server, either way, it's reallly disappointing to see that nothing happened since, because this issue goes quite a long time back now (i'd say about 4-5 years ago)

Microsoft please fix your stuff ! Don't rely on google, lol !