wsl-clock

IMPORTANT: This is not an official solution and whilst it worked on my machine this is an unsupported workaround :-)

There is an issue with WSL where the clock in WSl isn't updated when the host resumes from sleep/hibernate. E.g. this issue

This repo has a workaround that creates a scheduled task that is triggered by Windows Events for resuming from sleep/hibernation. When the scheduled task executes it resets the clock in the WSL VM.

For the background to this repo, see this blog post

Setup

To set up the scheduled task, clone the repo and run add-wslclocktask.ps1.

Cleanup

To remove the scheduled task, run remove-wslclocktask.ps1

Logs/Troubleshooting

The script invoked by the scheduled task logs output to ~/.wsl-clock.log

Known issues

Fails if default distribution is configured for WSL 1

The update-clock.ps1 script executes the hwclock against the default distro. If that distro is configured to run under WSL 1 then it will result in the following error as hwclock isn't supported on WSL 1 (and WSL 1 isn't executing in the lightweight VM for WSL 2 so this wouldn't have any effect anyway)

hwclock: Cannot access the Hardware Clock via any known method.
hwclock: Use the --debug option to see the details of our search for an access method.

See microsoft/WSL#193.

Possible workarounds: