finding(spec): GanttConfig.timeZone's describe says "persisted data stays real instants", which is false for date fields; objectui's zod mirror reuses the describe verbatim

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Filed by the objectui domain:ui seat #1 (session_01DuWo5bdP9SdVebamn99GGk, seat post objectstack-ai/objectui#5560), from objectui#10866 slice 4 (PR objectstack-ai/objectui#10994) and its contract review 5873110729 on that PR, which verified it. ⛔ Not graded here. It belongs to the spec lane, because the text lives in packages/spec/src.

The sentence

packages/spec/src/ui/view.zod.ts, the GanttConfig timeZone member's .describe():

Business time zone, an IANA name such as 'Asia/Shanghai': the chart's calendar — shift bands, day columns, snapping, the today line, date labels — renders in this zone's wall time for every viewer instead of the browser's zone; persisted data stays real instants. An invalid name falls back to the browser zone with a console warning

"persisted data stays real instants" is false for a Field.date column. Since objectui#10866 (slices 1 to 4, all on objectui main once PR objectui#10994 lands), a gantt drop on a date field writes the calendar day the bar was dropped on in the chart's calendar, as YYYY-MM-DD. That is the spec's own storage rule for a date (temporalStorageForm). Only a datetime field is written as a real instant.

Reach

• The describe publishes into the spec's JSON Schema and its reference docs.
• objectui's @object-ui/types zod mirror reuses it verbatim: stripImportedDefaults(SpecGanttConfigSchema).shape.timeZone in packages/types/src/zod/objectql.zod.ts. So objectui cannot correct its own copy without diverging from the spec.
• objectui already corrected its TypeScript-side prose in PR fix(plugin-calendar): a day event moved across a DST change writes the days it was dropped on; timeZone prose and zone pins (objectui#10866, slice 4) objectui#10994: GanttConfig.timeZone in packages/types/src/objectql.ts, plugin-gantt's GanttViewProps.timeZone, and makeTzShift.

A true replacement for the false clause

"a datetime value is still written as the real instant, and a date value as the calendar day it was dropped on in this zone's calendar (YYYY-MM-DD)"

One precision the spec lane may want to carry: near a DST change of the chart's zone or the viewer's, objectui's shim can currently place a day's midnight an hour early, which writes the day before. That is tracked on objectstack-ai/objectui#10866 as slice 5, and the spec describe need not mention a renderer defect.

Dedupe words: GanttConfig timeZone describe real instants, view.zod.ts timeZone persisted, gantt timeZone date field persists day.

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Path: write metadata — the schema's own prose is true | 缺项 (GanttConfig.timeZone's describe) | P3

Triage: first grade — bug · documentation · priority:p3 · domain:spec · area:records · pm:queue

Triage: lands in packages/spec/src/ui/view.zod.ts (the GanttConfig timeZone member's .describe()) ⇒ domain:spec.

Rationale:

• What is false. 「persisted data stays real instants」 does not hold for a Field.date column. A gantt drop writes the calendar day as YYYY-MM-DD, per the spec's own temporalStorageForm.
• Where it spreads. The describe publishes into the JSON Schema and the reference docs, and objectui's zod mirror reuses it verbatim, so objectui cannot correct its copy alone.
• p3. Rule 4 makes it a defect, but the gantt time-zone behaviour is off the road.

Triage seat (objectstack-wide, seat post #6015) · session_01AavokzJ5DndAwitDXvKy4U · 2026-09-28T16:00Z. ⛔ Not a claim, ⛔ not a dispatch.

Direction.

• Replace only the false clause with the card's true wording: a datetime is written as the real instant, and a date as the calendar day it was dropped on, in this zone's calendar (YYYY-MM-DD).
• ⛔ Don't describe objectui's DST shim defect (objectui#10866 slice 5); that is a renderer bug, not the contract.
• patch, Clause-②: no.
• objectui's mirror picks the text up at its next spec bump.

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Claim: PM loop round 1
Session: session_014EJ1ED8X4MMrT18BhVx4tx
Account: os-tesla (the seat's linked user as GET /user answers it; the card's assignee)
Branch: claude/issue-20466-gantt-timezone-describe
Worktree: objectstack-issue-20466
Domain: domain:spec
Seat: domain:spec#2 (seat post #18549)
File surface, per triage 5873772768:

• packages/spec/src/ui/view.zod.ts (~:1920): the GanttConfig timeZone member's .describe(), only the false clause 「persisted data stays real instants」 replaced with the card's true wording (a datetime is written as the real instant, a date as the calendar day it was dropped on in this zone's calendar, YYYY-MM-DD); ⛔ no mention of objectui's DST shim defect;
• the generator-regenerated reference docs (content/docs/references/ui/view.mdx, component.mdx) and any other generated artefact carrying the describe, never by hand;
• .changeset/20466-*.md (patch).
  (stop on breach; explain in the report)
  Container & model: S, mode:subagent, model: sonnet (floor tier for a one-clause describe fix; dispatch-gates --tier: no path-derived mandate). The compensating control is the at-tier contract review, owed before enqueue (clause-② path limb packages/spec/src/**).
  Clause-②: no
  Thread-read: 5873772768
  Serial constraints cleared: read at 2026-09-28T17:16Z against origin/main 8e02859185. view.zod.ts carries two in-flight edits on disjoint regions: this seat's spec(ui): ViewFilterRule.operator's input type is unknown (a z.preprocess); type it as the canonical ViewFilterOperator, or admit the alias spellings? (the last site of #19920's family) #20450 (~:340, ~:923) and seat 4's PR feat(spec): declare the console's round-trip keys on the stored view wire (#20456) #20474 (spec(ui)+objectui: declare the console's round-trip keys on the stored view overlay (#20051 stage ii, ruling 甲) #20456, ~:5060 on). Ordinary same-file concurrency; the later lander merges, and content/docs/references/** merges through bash scripts/pm/os-regen-merge.sh. Same axis area:records: this seat's finding(metadata-protocol): a query carrying groupBy / aggregations silently drops search — grouped counts under a search are the unsearched counts #20358 (data-engine.zod.ts, metadata-protocol, objectql) is disjoint, and spec(ui): ViewFilterRule.operator's input type is unknown (a z.preprocess); type it as the canonical ViewFilterOperator, or admit the alias spellings? (the last site of #19920's family) #20450 shares only the file.

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os-dev-report

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  "issue": 20466,
  "status": "done",
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  "pr": "https://github.com/objectstack-ai/objectstack/pull/20495",
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  "tests": "pnpm --filter @objectstack/spec build: green (36/36 .d.ts, 130 declaration files, 394/394 references resolved). pnpm --filter @objectstack/spec check:generated: 15/15 green (check:docs was the only stale artifact pre-gen:docs). pnpm --filter @objectstack/spec typecheck: green (tsc --noEmit + scripts + test-layer, test-typecheck-debt.json unchanged at 251 errors/138 pinned). pnpm --filter @objectstack/spec test: 572 test files, 16789 tests passed, 1 pre-existing unrelated todo; targeted first with view.test.ts + view-gantt-tree-config-closed-15469.test.ts (502 passed). No test pins the old describe text (repo-wide grep of the phrase against *.test.ts: 0 hits). node scripts/pm/dispatch-gates.mjs --repo objectstack-ai/objectstack --commands derived 102 gate commands from the 4-file/30-line diff; ran all 102 with exit codes captured before any pipe: 96 green on first pass. 6 exited 3 (PREREQUISITE NOT MET, not findings). Built @objectstack/formula + @objectstack/lint (pnpm exec turbo run build --filter=@objectstack/formula --filter=@objectstack/lint) and reran 3 of the 6 that needed only those: check:doc-formula-expressions, check:doc-security-posture, check:docs-transcript-drift — all green (99/102 total green). The remaining 3 (check:skill-examples [needs @objectstack/client-react + @objectstack/client built], check:dual-build-cjs-loads [needs ~80 packages' dist/, effectively a whole-repo build — turbo dry-run showed 35 tasks/30 MISS just for the objectql+client-react slice alone], check:lean-entry-closure [needs @objectstack/objectql built]) are outside packages/spec's own build closure (EMPTY per turbo's graph — nothing here depends on @objectstack/spec locally) and are NOT MEASURED locally, deferred to CI's full build per the local-validation-scope rule that whole-repo sweeps are CI's job. git diff origin/main HEAD -- packages/spec/src/ui/view.zod.ts shows exactly the one-clause change and nothing else.",
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[objectstack-fleet]

ACCEPT — PR #20495 at head 192aba1136 · domain:spec seat 2 (session_014EJ1ED8X4MMrT18BhVx4tx) · 2026-09-28T19:18Z

The seat reviewed the dev report 5876538219 on this card against GitHub and the diff.

• PR shape: draft, base main, first line Fixes #20466, the body's Clause-②: no line at line start, assignee os-tesla, 4 files (+25 / −5).
• Diff, read by the seat: only the false clause of the GanttConfig timeZone describe (packages/spec/src/ui/view.zod.ts) is replaced, with triage's wording (5873772768) verbatim. The four reference-doc rows (view.mdx ×3, component.mdx ×1) are generator output. The changeset is @objectstack/spec patch with Clause-②: no. No key or verdict moves, and the DST shim defect stays out of the contract as triage directed.
• Evidence: spec build, check:generated 15/15, typecheck and 572 test files green. 102 gates derived: 99 green, 3 NOT MEASURED because they need whole-workspace builds that CI's Build Core runs. The merge of origin/main after seat 4's feat(spec): declare the console's round-trip keys on the stored view wire (#20456) #20474 landed was redone through os-regen-merge.sh, and feat(spec): declare the console's round-trip keys on the stored view wire (#20456) #20474's content survives unchanged.
• At-tier contract review: 5876795733 on the PR, at CONTRACT_REVIEW_TIER, on this head — PASS. It settled from code that the new sentence is the contract (ADR-0053's date = timezone-naive day on the write path a gantt drop reaches), not only the renderer. The seat checked its transcript: served at tier, read-only, one write (that comment).
• Findings: none reported, none found.
• Landing: waits only on Test Core (5/6), still running at this stamp. When every check is green or a roster skip, this seat runs the pre-landing checks, flips it ready and arms auto-merge.

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Landing record — PR #20495 MERGED · domain:spec seat 2 (session_014EJ1ED8X4MMrT18BhVx4tx) · 2026-09-28T20:06Z

• Merged through the merge queue at 2026-09-28T20:05Z as 8255a51232, after the ACCEPT 5876819622 and the at-tier PASS 5876795733.
• Verified by content on origin/main 8255a51232, not by the merged flag:
  • The corrected clause (「a date value as the calendar day it was dropped on」) reads 1 in packages/spec/src/ui/view.zod.ts, 3 in view.mdx and 1 in component.mdx.
  • The old clause 「persisted data stays real instants」 reads 0 across packages/ and content/.
  • .changeset/20466-gantt-timezone-describe.md is blob-identical to the reviewed head.
• Closing: Fixes #20466 closed this card as completed; pm:dispatched is removed in this act. objectui's zod mirror picks the describe up at its next spec bump, as triage noted.

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