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I maintain several Windows 11 Pro and one Windows 11 Home PC's. Some personal and some for a business.
No matter what time and region settings are applied the time always is incorrect whenever users log in. Also the PC's would not stay on 24hr time.
For the business it causes incorrect time stamps on sensitive documents and for all users some confusion and frustration.
It also caused some windows upgrades (Home to Pro) to fail.
While writing this I had a thought and checked the BIOS clocks on the affected machines. The BIOS clocks were wrong on all machines and once corrected the problem was temporaly resolved. These computers have various brands of motherboards.
These machines previously have been working correctly for more than a year and the only conclusion I can come to is that recent Windows 11 updates have somehow corrupted the BIOS clock. Not all PC's the were affected by this issue.
The issue reappeared and I found anotuer solution submitted by someone who had this issue on windows 10.
Add RealTimeIsUniversal DWORD in Registry Editor
Once Registry Editor opens, navigate to the following key in the left pane
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation
Right-click the empty space and select New > QWORD (64-bit) Value.
Enter RealTimeIsUniversal as the name of the new value and double click it.
Set its Value data to 1 and click OK to save changes.
Now restart your computer and set the time again if necessary.
It works fine (so far) after that for me. No thanks to Microsoft who have done nothing for the many users who have had this issue.
No matter what time and region settings are applied the time always is incorrect whenever users log in. Also the PC's would not stay on 24hr time.
For the business it causes incorrect time stamps on sensitive documents and for all users some confusion and frustration.
It also caused some windows upgrades (Home to Pro) to fail.
While writing this I had a thought and checked the BIOS clocks on the affected machines. The BIOS clocks were wrong on all machines and once corrected the problem was temporaly resolved. These computers have various brands of motherboards.
These machines previously have been working correctly for more than a year and the only conclusion I can come to is that recent Windows 11 updates have somehow corrupted the BIOS clock. Not all PC's the were affected by this issue.
The issue reappeared and I found anotuer solution submitted by someone who had this issue on windows 10.
Add RealTimeIsUniversal DWORD in Registry Editor
Once Registry Editor opens, navigate to the following key in the left pane
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\TimeZoneInformation
Right-click the empty space and select New > QWORD (64-bit) Value.
Enter RealTimeIsUniversal as the name of the new value and double click it.
Set its Value data to 1 and click OK to save changes.
Now restart your computer and set the time again if necessary.
It works fine (so far) after that for me. No thanks to Microsoft who have done nothing for the many users who have had this issue.
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