SP3 Automatic Time Update not working?

[Michael Lovett]

This morning, my SP3 said it was 7:18PM, when in fact it was like 9:20am.

I checked the settings, and "automatic time update" is enabled. I disabled and enabled it but the little rotating "busy glyph" never stopped spinning (I waited for several minutes) so I just updated the time manually.

Anyone else having problems with automatic time?

Michael

 

[gtext]

Try one of the other time servers from the automatic time settings. Think it was time.windows.com that didn't work for some reason for me.

 

[leeshor]

You Surface should keep fairly accurate time without checking a time server. That sounds as if your time zone may not be accurate or there is a problem with the time offset.

 

[foghat]

Same thing happened with my wife's surface yesterday. She had to do a hard reboot as it would not come out of connected standby.

After the reboot, the time was off by a lot. Auto time was on, turning it off and then back on caused a never ending 'busy glyph'. I ended up just setting the time manually.

 

[adrians]

This was mentioned in some other threads, before. As gtext mentioned above (and as I did elsewhere) it's this default time server that seems to not keep time sometimes. Just switch to using another.

 

[ctitanic]

Same thing happened with my wife's surface yesterday. She had to do a hard reboot as it would not come out of connected standby.

After the reboot, the time was off by a lot. Auto time was on, turning it off and then back on caused a never ending 'busy glyph'. I ended up just setting the time manually.

Sometime the time servers are down. No all of them but the one you have configured.

 

[leeshor]

A customer has a server that I don't think has ever failed to error on the time server but it is also pretty darned accurate on its own, so I/we don't worry about it.

 

[iThinkiCan]

I had the exact same error this morning. Here's how I fixed it.

Control Panel > All Control Panel Items > Troubleshooting > All Categories

Run as admin > System Maintenance

This checks the clock but didn't find any issues. So I went over to Windows Update (desktop) and "Checked For Updates".

That's when I got this error: Windows Update error 0x8024a000

Clicked to "get help with error" > In help screen clicked "Run Troubleshooter for error 0x8024a000" which downloaded WindowsUpdateDiagnostic file, run and fixed!

Detection Details attached