rsyslogd: set SO_TIMESTAMP failed on '/dev/log': Invalid argument [v8.16.0]

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• Your Windows build number: (Type ver at a Windows Command Prompt)
  Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.16299.248]

• What you're doing and what's happening: (Copy&paste specific commands and their output, or include screen shots)
  I am looking at /var/log/syslog after restarting rsyslog distribution obtained in WSL by running
  sudo apt-get rsyslog

When this software starts up the following error is written to /var/log/syslog:
Feb 19 20:00:31 LAPTOP-xxxxxxxx rsyslogd: set SO_TIMESTAMP failed on '/dev/log': Invalid argument [v8.16.0]

• What's wrong / what should be happening instead:
  This error should not appear unless syslog is not properly configured which evidently it is not.

• Strace of the failing command, if applicable: (If some_command is failing, then run strace -o some_command.strace -f some_command some_args, and link the contents of some_command.strace in a gist here)
  The Strace is not feasible ,the command sequence is:
  sudo -i
  service rsyslog restart
  tail -f /var/log/syslog

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