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abhimanyuaryan
Jul 02, 2023Copper Contributor
My Windows time is always wrong
I have used WPD (https://wpd.app/) to block all Windows telemetry, and I have also disabled features like location and camera in Windows Privacy settings. However, I'm experiencing an issue with...
MathieuVandenHautte
Jul 03, 2023Iron Contributor
Hi abhimanyuaryan,
First of all, navigate to Settings > Time & language > Date & time
- Set time automatically: toggle ON
- Additional settings: "Sync Now" to time.windows.com. Does this work?
- In addition, you can always choose another time service, such as time.nist.gov, instead of time.windows.com
Also check that the URL time.windows.com is allowed by wpd.app.
- abhimanyuaryanJul 18, 2023Copper Contributor
MathieuVandenHautte hey I am not sure program or setting is blocking the request. But see my windows can't receive packets from these domains when doing a ping request
- MathieuVandenHautteJul 18, 2023Iron ContributorHi,
Can your machine resolve the domains? Can you check with nslookup?- abhimanyuaryanJul 18, 2023Copper Contributoryes looks like it was able to resolve the domain. Output
```
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.22621.1992]
(c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
C:\Users\aryan>nslookup time.windows.com
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.0.1
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: twc.trafficmanager.net
Address: 40.81.94.65
Aliases: time.windows.com
C:\Users\aryan>nslookup time.nist.gov
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.0.1
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: ntp1.glb.nist.gov
Addresses: 2610:20:6f97:97::6
129.6.15.26
Aliases: time.nist.gov
```
- abhimanyuaryanJul 18, 2023Copper Contributortrying to add more time servers following this: https://www.technipages.com/fix-windows-wont-sync-with-time-windows-com/
Let's see if that works