ran a final test on my hobby project - good grief time math is a pain in the butt.
But, I was working, thought, darn, it didn't work... realized that it was one minute before the events were supposed to be firing off. Appears to have worked, made note of a few minor issues, but, all in all, that worked.
Back to working on a few other things after a few minor tweaks, but, got it done before Jan 22.... which was the goal.