Here's a random question for my online nerds: is there a reason why Windows 11 timekeeping sucks so badly, and is there a way to fix it? Having used Macs and Apple devices for pretty much everything for years, I’m used to my devices keeping themselves within a second of accurate so consistently that I just don’t think about it. However, I recently built a Windows/Linux box for gaming (running Windows predominantly for the games we play most), and one of the games has events that happen at specific times… and I’ll notice regularly that the in-game countdown (which is accurate) is a significant fraction of a minute out from my local computer clock.

The computer is always connected to (wired) internet, it is configured to use ntp.org servers to synchronise automatically, and whenever I manually tell it to synchronise the time it seems to do so accurately. Does Windows just not give a shit about keeping itself in sync, despite how it’s configured? Cos this timekeeping is on par with an old school car stereo, not a 21st century internet-connected device.