WSL Wrong Time: How to Fix incorrect Time in WSL

While working with AWS SAM I ran into an error caused by the local system time of WSL being wrong.

In the above image notice that the date command outputs the hour being 4.

A call to worldtimeapi.org for my timezone shows the time being 12. Something is wrong.
World time API call formatted with JQ: curl -s "http://worldtimeapi.org/api/ip" | jq '.["datetime"]'

I attempted to re-configure WSL Ubuntu’s time with sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata

That didn’t do the trick, it responded with below when the hour should be 12 PM:

Current default time zone: 'America/New_York'
Local time is now:      Mon Jul 13 16:21:15 EDT 2020.
Universal Time is now:  Mon Jul 13 20:21:15 UTC 2020.

The fix

It looks like there is a bug with WSL time handling.

To work around this I installed ntpdate and configured it then added the call to ntpdate to my .bashrc so it runs each time I login to WSL.

#Copy and paste this script into your terminal to permanently fix the date bring incorrect
sudo apt install ntpdate

#Only 
ntpdate -sb time.nist.gov

printf "\n#Run ntpdate to fix time bug in WSL \nntpdate -sb time.nist.gov\n" >> ~/.bashrc

#Verify the date is now correct
date

Update: Nov 3rd, 2020

This fix stopped working for after having working for several months. Here is my new fix curtsy of this Ask Ubuntu post.

#Update your time by hand
sudo date -s "$(wget -qSO- --max-redirect=0 google.com 2>&1 | grep Date: | cut -d' ' -f5-8)Z"

#Date to check the time is as expected
date

#Add time fix command to .bashrc so it runs every time you login
printf '\nsudo date -s \"$(wget -qSO- --max-redirect=0 google.com 2>&1 | grep Date: | cut -d" " -f5-8)Z\"
\n' >> ~/.bashrc