Synchronize Linux System Clock to Windows Ntp Service

How do I synchronize clocks between Linux and Windows?

Make both machines be NTP clients. That should make their clocks correct to within a rather short interval, and is already developed, tested, and available.

According to the Wikipedia page on NTP, you should expect around 10 ms over Internet, far less if you have a local time server on your LAN, which should be quite easy to set up.

how to sync windows time from a ntp time server in command

Use net time
net time \\timesrv /set /yes

after your comment try this one in evelated prompt :

w32tm /config /update /manualpeerlist:yourtimerserver

How to sync time between windows and linux computers?

You can set up a NTP Server on one of the Linux machines and have the others point to it.

• How to setup a NTP-Server with Redhat

Connect to the NTP-Server in Redhat:

• ntpdate -du ntpservername

Connect to the NTP-Server in Windows XP:

• Right click on the clock in the system tray
• Choose adjust time
• On the internet time tab insert your server hostname

WSL2 Clock is out of sync with Windows

UPDATE: as mentioned by drkvogel, the Clock Sync fix was released in WSL2 kernel version 5.10.16.3

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At time of writing, this GitHub Issue was open for the bug.

The workaround I chose for my situation (single distro in WSL2) is to use Windows Task Scheduler to run hwclock in WSL whenever Windows resyncs hardware clock.

Windows: Open PowerShell as Administrator

schtasks /create /tn WSLClockSync /tr "wsl.exe sudo hwclock -s" /sc onevent /ec system /mo "*[System[Provider[@Name='Microsoft-Windows-Kernel-General'] and (EventID=1)]]"
Set-ScheduledTask WSLClockSync -Settings (New-ScheduledTaskSettingsSet -AllowStartIfOnBatteries)

WSL2: Run sudo visudo and add hwclock to sudoers to skip password prompt

# bottom of my file looks like this
...
...
#includedir /etc/sudoers.d
<username> ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/usr/sbin/hwclock, /usr/bin/apt update, /usr/bin/apt upgrade

Results

See image for how to get Event XPath from Windows Event filtering. Use as provided to let task scheduler auto-display scheduled triggers.

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