... That is horrible code if it depends on any user-set times... then goes so far to tell you that you are wrong... Well, if it is wrong, then fix it for me, or ignore it, or stop looking at it... Stupid program. lol.
I can't agree with you more here, except for one change. Programs cannot be stupid. They will always simply be a reflection of the programmer(s). That, however, will have to be discussion for a different thread.
I currently have 20 connections. I did the -debug=1 switch and looked in the logs and though I didn't understand everything in them, I did not see anything that would indicated a different time than local. Your thoughts about a router or server up line from my computer having a wrong time is plausible if this problem occurred on other computer within my LAN or within the VMs on the same computer. My Litecoin wallet on the same computer doesn't have a problem with the time, and from what I know, the two wallets have almost identical code.
Later today, I'm going to backup my wallet.dat and then blow the whole bitcoin data directory away and uninstall. I'll let y'all know the outcome when I get it all running again.