I believe i fixed it! If you find time to try 1.5.1, please let me know if it works!
Thank you again for helping me work on it!
hmm.
if you're not on a Corporate/school network and you do not have parental controls or content filters enabled, and if on top of that then if your provider/country is throttling international connections to both https://worldtimeapi.org/ and https://timeapi.io/ then...
maybe i should remove the network checks from the game. i'll mull this over.