Should Windows time be set to manual or automatic?

Hello Redbatman, :)

What is preferable is what you prefer and works for you.

Personally, I prefer automatic. It just depends on if the time stays correct with automatic or not.

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I prefer automatic. You should set yours to whatever you prefer.

Definitely Autonatic. Always have the correct time.

Redbatman said:

I may have phrased my question wrong. When I said manual or automatic I meant from services.msc for Windows Time. (W32Time)

Automatic.

Redbatman said:

...When I said manual or automatic I meant from services.msc for Windows Time. (W32Time)

cereberus said:

Automatic.

I've never changed that one, and mine says Automatic too (I've just looked)...

...which is odd, as apparently both @Brink's tutorial and Black Viper say that Microsoft's default is Manual.

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Hello Bree, :)

It's for the Set time automatically setting in Option One below instead.

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Brink said:

Hello Bree, :)

It's for the Set time automatically setting in Option One below instead.

Change Time in Windows 10 | Windows 10 Tutorials

OK, so changing the 'set time automatically' toggle in Settings modifies the W32time start up type in Services. That would make sense.

So as an experiment I turned off 'set time automatically' in Settings then looked in Services.
Result: Startup = Disabled, Service status = Stopped.

Then I turned it back on: Startup = Manual (Triggered start), Service status = Running.

Now I'm really puzzled, where/when/how did I get it set as Automatic?