Clock Skew in development container for Docker Desktop 4.59.0 on Windows 11 Home 25H2

[tcwan]

Description

Recently I updated my Windows 11 system to the latest WSL2 (2.6.3), Docker Desktop (4.59.0) for use with VSCode container running Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS for x86_64.

When I perform a Linux module build, I am getting clock skew problems.

root@docker-desktop:/workspace/embetronicx# make clean; make all
rm -rf *.elf .o *~ core .depend ..cmd *.ko *.mod .mod.c
.tmp_versions Module. modules.order .cache.mk *.o.ur-safe
make ARCH=arm64 CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu-
-C /lib/modules/6.8.0-1043-raspi/build M=pwd modules
make[1]: Entering directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-6.8.0-1043-raspi'
CC [M] /workspace/embetronicx/driver.o
make[3]: Warning: File '/workspace/embetronicx/modules.order' has modification time 6.8 s in the future
MODPOST /workspace/embetronicx/Module.symvers
make[3]: warning: Clock skew detected. Your build may be incomplete.
make[3]: Warning: File '/workspace/embetronicx/driver.o' has modification time 5.9 s in the future
CC [M] /workspace/embetronicx/driver.mod.o
LD [M] /workspace/embetronicx/driver.ko
BTF [M] /workspace/embetronicx/driver.ko
Skipping BTF generation for /workspace/embetronicx/driver.ko due to unavailability of vmlinux
make[3]: warning: Clock skew detected. Your build may be incomplete.
make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-headers-6.8.0-1043-raspi'

This did not happen in previous Docker versions.
The docker container clock is consistently ~5-7 seconds behind the Host clock. This appears to be the same for WSL2 Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS instances as well.

Reproduce

1. Run VSCode with Remote Development Container configuration
2. make clean; make all
3. Clock skew detected

Expected behavior

No response

docker version

Client:
 Version:           29.2.0
 API version:       1.53
 Go version:        go1.25.6
 Git commit:        0b9d198
 Built:             Mon Jan 26 19:28:56 2026
 OS/Arch:           windows/amd64
 Context:           desktop-linux

Server: Docker Desktop 4.59.0 (217644)
 Engine:
  Version:          29.2.0
  API version:      1.53 (minimum version 1.44)
  Go version:       go1.25.6
  Git commit:       9c62384
  Built:            Mon Jan 26 19:26:07 2026
  OS/Arch:          linux/amd64
  Experimental:     false
 containerd:
  Version:          v2.2.1
  GitCommit:        dea7da592f5d1d2b7755e3a161be07f43fad8f75
 runc:
  Version:          1.3.4
  GitCommit:        v1.3.4-0-gd6d73eb8
 docker-init:
  Version:          0.19.0
  GitCommit:        de40ad0

docker info

Client:
 Version:    29.2.0
 Context:    desktop-linux
 Debug Mode: false
 Plugins:
  ai: Docker AI Agent - Ask Gordon (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v1.17.2
    Path:     C:\Program Files\Docker\cli-plugins\docker-ai.exe
  buildx: Docker Buildx (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v0.31.1-desktop.1
    Path:     C:\Program Files\Docker\cli-plugins\docker-buildx.exe
  compose: Docker Compose (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v5.0.2
    Path:     C:\Program Files\Docker\cli-plugins\docker-compose.exe
  debug: Get a shell into any image or container (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  0.0.47
    Path:     C:\Program Files\Docker\cli-plugins\docker-debug.exe
  desktop: Docker Desktop commands (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v0.2.0
    Path:     C:\Program Files\Docker\cli-plugins\docker-desktop.exe
  extension: Manages Docker extensions (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v0.2.31
    Path:     C:\Program Files\Docker\cli-plugins\docker-extension.exe
  init: Creates Docker-related starter files for your project (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v1.4.0
    Path:     C:\Program Files\Docker\cli-plugins\docker-init.exe
  mcp: Docker MCP Plugin (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v0.37.0
    Path:     C:\Program Files\Docker\cli-plugins\docker-mcp.exe
  model: Docker Model Runner (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v1.0.8
    Path:     C:\Program Files\Docker\cli-plugins\docker-model.exe
  offload: Docker Offload (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v0.5.41
    Path:     C:\Program Files\Docker\cli-plugins\docker-offload.exe
  pass: Docker Pass Secrets Manager Plugin (beta) (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v0.0.24
    Path:     C:\Program Files\Docker\cli-plugins\docker-pass.exe
  sandbox: Docker Sandbox (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v0.11.0
    Path:     C:\Users\tcwin\.docker\cli-plugins\docker-sandbox.exe
  sbom: View the packaged-based Software Bill Of Materials (SBOM) for an image (Anchore Inc.)
    Version:  0.6.0
    Path:     C:\Program Files\Docker\cli-plugins\docker-sbom.exe
  scout: Docker Scout (Docker Inc.)
    Version:  v1.19.0
    Path:     C:\Program Files\Docker\cli-plugins\docker-scout.exe

Server:
 Containers: 1
  Running: 1
  Paused: 0
  Stopped: 0
 Images: 3
 Server Version: 29.2.0
 Storage Driver: overlay2
  Backing Filesystem: extfs
  Supports d_type: true
  Using metacopy: false
  Native Overlay Diff: true
  userxattr: false
 Logging Driver: json-file
 Cgroup Driver: cgroupfs
 Cgroup Version: 2
 Plugins:
  Volume: local
  Network: bridge host ipvlan macvlan null overlay
  Log: awslogs fluentd gcplogs gelf journald json-file local splunk syslog
 CDI spec directories:
  /etc/cdi
  /var/run/cdi
 Discovered Devices:
  cdi: docker.com/gpu=webgpu
 Swarm: inactive
 Runtimes: io.containerd.runc.v2 nvidia runc
 Default Runtime: runc
 Init Binary: docker-init
 containerd version: dea7da592f5d1d2b7755e3a161be07f43fad8f75
 runc version: v1.3.4-0-gd6d73eb8
 init version: de40ad0
 Security Options:
  seccomp
   Profile: builtin
  cgroupns
 Kernel Version: 6.6.87.2-microsoft-standard-WSL2
 Operating System: Docker Desktop
 OSType: linux
 Architecture: x86_64
 CPUs: 16
 Total Memory: 7.403GiB
 Name: docker-desktop
 ID: 472c3cf9-cd7a-4eff-a3a8-4975479c946b
 Docker Root Dir: /var/lib/docker
 Debug Mode: false
 HTTP Proxy: http.docker.internal:3128
 HTTPS Proxy: http.docker.internal:3128
 No Proxy: hubproxy.docker.internal
 Labels:
  com.docker.desktop.address=npipe://\\.\pipe\docker_cli
 Experimental: false
 Insecure Registries:
  hubproxy.docker.internal:5555
  127.0.0.0/8
  ::1/128
 Live Restore Enabled: false
 Firewall Backend: iptables

Diagnostics ID

6EBEF720-7A98-4D8D-8A46-6F7EBDD144D2/20260205120933

Additional Info

No response