Windows 10 Time synchronization failed: time.windows.com

  • Thread starter Thread starter Burt Harris (MSFT retired)
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Burt Harris (MSFT retired)

Time synchronization has been working well for years, but started failing almost a month ago. I think this is a problem with the server time.windows.com. Here's the error message in context:






Solutions proposed in earlier questions (dating back to 2014) don't solve the problem, the time service is running on my machine. It seems like connectivity to time.windows.com is down.


C:\WINDOWS\system32>tracert time.windows.com


Tracing route to time.microsoft.akadns.net [40.81.188.85]

over a maximum of 30 hops:


1 7 ms 5 ms 7 ms 10.0.0.1

2 * * * Request timed out.

3 * * * Request timed out.

4 * * * Request timed out.

5 * * * Request timed out.

6 * * * Request timed out.

7 * * * Request timed out.

8 * * * Request timed out.

9 * * * Request timed out.

10 * * * Request timed out.

11 ^C

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