Win11 Clock issues

[frase]

Hi all, I have an odd issue with my clock on the taskbar. The issue is it only updates to the current time if I hover over it, if I dont it just stays static.
Has anyone seen this issue before, I have tried everything in regards to fundamentals of clock settings. I have tried a different time server and still same issue. It has been causing issues with my outlook as time is not synched.

 

[phaZed]

I'd be looking more at SFC chkdsk corrupted sys file type stuff.

 

[britechguy]

I'm with @phaZed.

My typical advice when any "weirdness" like this occurs is:

• Using DISM (Deployment Imaging Servicing and Management) and SFC (System File Checker) to Repair Windows 8, 10 & 11

 

[britechguy]

By the way, on those rare occasions where the DISM/SFC combo don't resolve things, my next step is:

• Performing a Windows 10 or 11 Repair Install or Feature Update Using the Windows ISO file

 

[frase]

Done all of that still having the issue, darned if I can figure it out. I had tried for about an hour before posting on here, knew I should have just reinstalled Win10 not 11.

 

[callthatgirl]

Did you try changing it manually?

 

[frase]

Did you try changing it manually?

Yup, done all of that - is quite annoying.

 

[nlinecomputers]

Possibly a display driver issue?

 

[Diggs]

By the way, on those rare occasions where the DISM/SFC combo don't resolve things, my next step is:

Really? I think in all the times I've run DISM it fixed things maybe once. I've just about quit using it anymore.

 

[Markverhyden]

Really? I think in all the times I've run DISM it fixed things maybe once. I've just about quit using it anymore.

I've had many occasions where I tried various switches to find that they've been deprecated yet there's little mention of that. That's for "repairs" type work. So I've almost stopped using it. Like other software utilities in all OS's. They've matured so much that, meaning in the self-maintenance category, that those app based repairs are all but useless.

 

[britechguy]

I think in all the times I've run DISM it fixed things maybe once. I've just about quit using it anymore.

Interesting. My experience is that it definitely does fix most of the "weird trivia" when I've used it, but I also use SFC, too. In theory, you shouldn't need to, but I've found that each of those utilities can find and fix certain things that the other doesn't seem to.

My favorite non-nuclear option is, however, the repair install using the ISO. If that can't fix it, then nuke and pave is really the only option I've ever seen work.

This issue is most peculiar not so much because of the failure to change the clock display in the lower right of the taskbar, but this: "It has been causing issues with my outlook as time is not synched." Even if you have total failure to synchronize with an external clock (and I've had that plenty of times over the years) unless your local clock is way, way off this shouldn't have any impact on Outlook.

 

[frase]

Sorry if I am mistaken, though does 365 Exchange not adhere to my system clock synced to internet time server? As for example in regards to system time in the taskbar. It can stay at say 12:30PM for as long as it does until I then hover over it, only then it will display the correct time.

 

[nlinecomputers]

Sorry if I am mistaken, though does 365 Exchange not adhere to my system clock synced to internet time server? As for example in regards to system time in the taskbar. It can stay at say 12:30PM for as long as it does until I then hover over it, only then it will display the correct time.

Exchange just gets the system time. Something is fundamentally wrong with this system if the clock literally doesn’t advance when not displayed.

 

[nlinecomputers]

One other possibility is that the CMOS battery is dead?

 

[frase]

One other possibility is that the CMOS battery is dead?

Never thought of that, though as @britechguy stated that will be my option it seems. When I get the time to do it. Will check battery first cheers @nlinecomputers .

 

[britechguy]

Not that it will hurt to check the CMOS battery, but unless you are depriving the machine of a constant power source or your electrical supply is "somewhat more variable" than is typical (at least where I live), should that matter?

The only time I've seen a CMOS battery factor in is when a desktop or laptop is completely deprived of any trickle supply of power. Otherwise, what the CMOS battery preserves should be being kept alive by the AC power.

 

[frase]

I will make a small recording next time and upload it to show what is occurring. I have never came across this issue in my years of PC computing.

 

[nlinecomputers]

Not that it will hurt to check the CMOS battery, but unless you are depriving the machine of a constant power source or your electrical supply is "somewhat more variable" than is typical (at least where I live), should that matter?

The only time I've seen a CMOS battery factor in is when a desktop or laptop is completely deprived of any trickle supply of power. Otherwise, what the CMOS battery preserves should be being kept alive by the AC power.

I've seen some wierd stuff just recently with dead CMOS batteries. I have had 5 Dell Optiplexs show up with them in the past couple of months and all had issues of dropping hard drives and having boot-up issues that made me think it was a bad power supply. I could see some PC clocks only being run by that battery.

 

[britechguy]

@nlinecomputers

Good data points to have. Not something I'd have thought to look at immediately, that's for sure. And it's a really, really cheap fix (or value added service, if it's not a fix).

 

[Markverhyden]

If I remember things correctly the underlying BIOS and OS are in constant communication as far as time is concerned. Most of the time if it reports out of sync in BIOS I can just update it in the OS and it passes that back. Same thing with updating in BIOS and it hands it up to the OS. The symptom makes me think that whatever service handles the time sync has gone zombie. I'd be looking at processes and seeing if any are hanging.