Group Policy Preferences - Registry change - time targetting

I have a customer who wants to change the timeouts etc on a screensaver based on the time of day.
Users often leave a machine open and on(with Bloomberg info) and work using another machine while they keep an eye on the Bloomberg one.
The plan is to have these machines running Bloomberg have a long screen timeout during the working day, and then go back to the default screensaver timeout after that so the users don't have to continually enter a password.
Looking at GPP it needs to be done via a registry change.
I've created the policy  (screensaver, lock and screensaver on are all set (3 reg updates), then 2 time targeted additional reg updates for the screen saver timeout), but the policy only applies at logon or a forced gpupdate.  It doesn't update when
the time change occurs.
If I run a "gpupdate /force" the policy does change based on time.  I have tried a scheduled task for "gpupdate / force" and that didn't apply the change.
Is GPP registry just not up to the job for time scheduling with a registry change, or am I doing something wrong?
All machines are Win7 pro x64

Hi JaseFromLodon,
To make it work ,we can set this policy to have a check.By default, computer Group Policy is updated in the background every 90 minutes.We can change this time to "0" instead of creating a task schedule and the update will be performed every 7
second.
Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Group Policy \Set group policy refresh internal for computers
Here is a link for reference
Group Policy refresh interval for computers
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc940895.aspx
For the time range faeture ,I am sorry I didn`t explain the issue clearly .
Pay attention to the "note " in step 13 of the link as you posted .
"Make sure you allow for the policy refresh interval (default 90 minutes with a 20% random offset) when configuring the start and end time. This means you might want to start applying the policy 2 hours before the start of business (e.g. 6:30am) to make
sure all the computers are configured with the Business Hours Power Plan before people login in the morning (e.g. 8:30am)."
The time targeting feature doesn`t mean the preference settings will be applied according to the specific time we have set .It means the preference settings will be applied to the machines whose time is included in the time range .Please pay attention to
the explanation of the time range features carefully (the screenshot I have posted).
Manually "gpupdate /force "will work .I suspect the task schedule hasn`t been set correctly .Please check the running history of this task schedule.
Best regards

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