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I found that when attempting to change the Date/Time settings on a Hyper-V virtualised Windows 8 OS, I found that the date would immediately change back to the correct date.

How can I prevent the Date/Time from reverting once I've set it?

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    With PowerShell:: Disable-VMIntegrationService –Name <Service Name> -VMName <Target Guest VM Name>
    – Biswapriyo
    Jun 22, 2017 at 14:46

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Open the 'Hyper-V Manager' application on the host machine.

On the list of 'Virtual Machines', right-click on the VM where you want to change the Date/Time settings and click 'Settings'.

Under the 'Management' section of options, select 'Integration Services', and uncheck the 'Time synchronization' option.

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When changing the Date/Time settings from within the VM, the Date/Time will no longer revert to the Date/Time on your host machine.

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    You might want to include the warning that time keeping in VM's without this can be very iffy....
    – djsmiley2kStaysInside
    Jun 1, 2017 at 8:38
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I found Virtualbox the most easy: https://tothecore.sk/2021/04/08/disable-time-sync-for-virtualbox-virtual-machines/

How to prevent time from Host:

Close running VM run cmd as admin. C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBOXManage.exe list vms C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage.exe setextradata "Win7x64_" "VBoxInternal/Devices/VMMDev/0/Config/GetHostTimeDisabled" 1 I normally do this:

If you have multiple VMs then: C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBOXManage.exe list vms C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage.exe setextradata "042feed8-3612-4aa0-b840-727b39771ed5" "VBoxInternal/Devices/VMMDev/0/Config/GetHostTimeDisabled" 1

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It is possible to temporarily disable time synchronization for hyper-v vm's however every hour or so the OS will sync with the hardware clock aka the bios time. As far as i known its not possible to change the bios time for hyper-v vm's. if you disable the windows time service, the hyper-v time service and task scheduler time synchronization jobs, the OS will sync the system time to the bios clock roughly every hour.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/access-bios-settings-system-date-for-vm-in-hyper-v/62f4ea6b-7bdb-433b-83d3-3fd03fd4978a

I ended up just creating a virtualbox vm and using the bios time offset command https://winaero.com/blog/how-to-set-the-bios-date-in-virtualbox/

hopefully this feature will be implemented in the future for hyper-v.

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