Interesting; looking at the logs and the router time with my settings above, it displays -1 hour to my current time.
I have all of my network equipment (forest root controller, dns, printers, etc.) pointing to 'time.chu.nrc.ca' and a force sync reports back with the current time settings ... this suggests that NTP resolution is happening two-way and therefore working - except for the DIR-857.
I'm at a client site at the moment, when I get back to the home office, I'll double-check the logs and router to see if a time resync has occurred.
Cheers,