rest-server: the import-job DTO serves "Sun Aug 30 2026 … GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)" for four timestamp fields on Postgres/MySQL — String() over a Date #13994

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@zhuangjianguo

Found by the driver-materialisation consumer census on #13973 (class (c) — genuinely wrong on one side). That sweep is not addressed by this card and does not close it.

The site

packages/rest/src/rest-server.ts:515-538, importJobToProgress(row) — the mapper behind the import-job progress and summary REST responses:

...(row?.reverted_at ? {revertedAt: String(row.reverted_at)} : {}),// :520
...(row?.started_at ? {startedAt: String(row.started_at)} : {}),// :533
...(row?.completed_at ? {completedAt: String(row.completed_at)} : {}),// :534createdAt: String(row?.created_at??''),// :536

row is a sys_import_job record read through the engine's record read door.

Why it is wrong on the production default driver

This site is unusual in the census in that it covers both halves of #13973's value enumeration at once:

  • created_at is a builtin audit column — not in datetimeFields, repaired by formatOutput only inside if (this.isSqlite).
  • started_at, completed_at and reverted_at are declared Field.datetime (packages/platform-objects/src/audit/sys-import-job.object.ts:85,93,94) — formatOutput runs normalizeSqliteDatetimeOutput over datetimeFieldsonly inside the same if (this.isSqlite) arm.

So on Postgres and MySQL all four arrive as JS Dates and String() renders the Date.prototype.toString form — whole seconds, process timezone baked in, no Z:

Sun Aug 30 2026 18:19:25 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time) <- what the API serves on PG/MySQL
2026-08-30T10:19:25.947Z <- what it serves on SQLite

Milliseconds are dropped and the value is not Date.parse-safe for any client doing strict ISO parsing. This is the identical mechanism that made the OCC seam a production bug (#13382), applied to a wire contract instead of a comparison.

Note JSON.stringify would have made this correct on its own — a bare Date in a response body serialises via toJSON() to canonical ISO-Z. The explicit String() is what breaks it.

Why this is not a ?? fallback

Per #13973's standing prohibition: which side owes the canonical spelling is the question. Two shapes:

  • A — spell the repair at the mapper, the shape this repo already uses one file over in packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts:7710-7715, which is class (a) precisely because it handles both:
    typeofr.occurred_at==='string' ? r.occurred_at
    : r.occurred_atinstanceofDate ? r.occurred_at.toISOString()
    : String(r.occurred_at??'')
  • B — normalise at the producer (one presented shape per dialect at the read door). Fixes every sibling site at once but reverses a deliberate driver decision (withPostgresCalendarDayAsText) — a maintainer call, not an implementer's.

Re-run

rg -n 'String\(row\??\.?(created_at|started_at|completed_at|reverted_at)' packages/rest/src/

Backlink: #13973 (census), #13382 (the OCC seam, the same shape). Neither is addressed here.

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    rest-server: the import-job DTO serves "Sun Aug 30 2026 … GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)" for four timestamp fields on Postgres/MySQL — String() over a Date #13994

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    @zhuangjianguo

    Found by the driver-materialisation consumer census on #13973 (class (c) — genuinely wrong on one side). That sweep is not addressed by this card and does not close it.

    The site

    packages/rest/src/rest-server.ts:515-538, importJobToProgress(row) — the mapper behind the import-job progress and summary REST responses:

    ...(row?.reverted_at ? {revertedAt: String(row.reverted_at)} : {}),// :520
    ...(row?.started_at ? {startedAt: String(row.started_at)} : {}),// :533
    ...(row?.completed_at ? {completedAt: String(row.completed_at)} : {}),// :534createdAt: String(row?.created_at??''),// :536

    row is a sys_import_job record read through the engine's record read door.

    Why it is wrong on the production default driver

    This site is unusual in the census in that it covers both halves of #13973's value enumeration at once:

    • created_at is a builtin audit column — not in datetimeFields, repaired by formatOutput only inside if (this.isSqlite).
    • started_at, completed_at and reverted_at are declared Field.datetime (packages/platform-objects/src/audit/sys-import-job.object.ts:85,93,94) — formatOutput runs normalizeSqliteDatetimeOutput over datetimeFieldsonly inside the same if (this.isSqlite) arm.

    So on Postgres and MySQL all four arrive as JS Dates and String() renders the Date.prototype.toString form — whole seconds, process timezone baked in, no Z:

    Sun Aug 30 2026 18:19:25 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time) <- what the API serves on PG/MySQL
    2026-08-30T10:19:25.947Z <- what it serves on SQLite
    

    Milliseconds are dropped and the value is not Date.parse-safe for any client doing strict ISO parsing. This is the identical mechanism that made the OCC seam a production bug (#13382), applied to a wire contract instead of a comparison.

    Note JSON.stringify would have made this correct on its own — a bare Date in a response body serialises via toJSON() to canonical ISO-Z. The explicit String() is what breaks it.

    Why this is not a ?? fallback

    Per #13973's standing prohibition: which side owes the canonical spelling is the question. Two shapes:

    • A — spell the repair at the mapper, the shape this repo already uses one file over in packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts:7710-7715, which is class (a) precisely because it handles both:
      typeofr.occurred_at==='string' ? r.occurred_at
      : r.occurred_atinstanceofDate ? r.occurred_at.toISOString()
      : String(r.occurred_at??'')
    • B — normalise at the producer (one presented shape per dialect at the read door). Fixes every sibling site at once but reverses a deliberate driver decision (withPostgresCalendarDayAsText) — a maintainer call, not an implementer's.

    Re-run

    rg -n 'String\(row\??\.?(created_at|started_at|completed_at|reverted_at)' packages/rest/src/
    

    Backlink: #13973 (census), #13382 (the OCC seam, the same shape). Neither is addressed here.

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      rest-server: the import-job DTO serves "Sun Aug 30 2026 … GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)" for four timestamp fields on Postgres/MySQL — String() over a Date #13994

      Description

      @zhuangjianguo

      Found by the driver-materialisation consumer census on #13973 (class (c) — genuinely wrong on one side). That sweep is not addressed by this card and does not close it.

      The site

      packages/rest/src/rest-server.ts:515-538, importJobToProgress(row) — the mapper behind the import-job progress and summary REST responses:

      ...(row?.reverted_at ? {revertedAt: String(row.reverted_at)} : {}),// :520
      ...(row?.started_at ? {startedAt: String(row.started_at)} : {}),// :533
      ...(row?.completed_at ? {completedAt: String(row.completed_at)} : {}),// :534createdAt: String(row?.created_at??''),// :536

      row is a sys_import_job record read through the engine's record read door.

      Why it is wrong on the production default driver

      This site is unusual in the census in that it covers both halves of #13973's value enumeration at once:

      • created_at is a builtin audit column — not in datetimeFields, repaired by formatOutput only inside if (this.isSqlite).
      • started_at, completed_at and reverted_at are declared Field.datetime (packages/platform-objects/src/audit/sys-import-job.object.ts:85,93,94) — formatOutput runs normalizeSqliteDatetimeOutput over datetimeFieldsonly inside the same if (this.isSqlite) arm.

      So on Postgres and MySQL all four arrive as JS Dates and String() renders the Date.prototype.toString form — whole seconds, process timezone baked in, no Z:

      Sun Aug 30 2026 18:19:25 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time) <- what the API serves on PG/MySQL
      2026-08-30T10:19:25.947Z <- what it serves on SQLite
      

      Milliseconds are dropped and the value is not Date.parse-safe for any client doing strict ISO parsing. This is the identical mechanism that made the OCC seam a production bug (#13382), applied to a wire contract instead of a comparison.

      Note JSON.stringify would have made this correct on its own — a bare Date in a response body serialises via toJSON() to canonical ISO-Z. The explicit String() is what breaks it.

      Why this is not a ?? fallback

      Per #13973's standing prohibition: which side owes the canonical spelling is the question. Two shapes:

      • A — spell the repair at the mapper, the shape this repo already uses one file over in packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts:7710-7715, which is class (a) precisely because it handles both:
        typeofr.occurred_at==='string' ? r.occurred_at
        : r.occurred_atinstanceofDate ? r.occurred_at.toISOString()
        : String(r.occurred_at??'')
      • B — normalise at the producer (one presented shape per dialect at the read door). Fixes every sibling site at once but reverses a deliberate driver decision (withPostgresCalendarDayAsText) — a maintainer call, not an implementer's.

      Re-run

      rg -n 'String\(row\??\.?(created_at|started_at|completed_at|reverted_at)' packages/rest/src/
      

      Backlink: #13973 (census), #13382 (the OCC seam, the same shape). Neither is addressed here.

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        rest-server: the import-job DTO serves "Sun Aug 30 2026 … GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)" for four timestamp fields on Postgres/MySQL — String() over a Date #13994

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        @zhuangjianguo

        Found by the driver-materialisation consumer census on #13973 (class (c) — genuinely wrong on one side). That sweep is not addressed by this card and does not close it.

        The site

        packages/rest/src/rest-server.ts:515-538, importJobToProgress(row) — the mapper behind the import-job progress and summary REST responses:

        ...(row?.reverted_at ? {revertedAt: String(row.reverted_at)} : {}),// :520
        ...(row?.started_at ? {startedAt: String(row.started_at)} : {}),// :533
        ...(row?.completed_at ? {completedAt: String(row.completed_at)} : {}),// :534createdAt: String(row?.created_at??''),// :536

        row is a sys_import_job record read through the engine's record read door.

        Why it is wrong on the production default driver

        This site is unusual in the census in that it covers both halves of #13973's value enumeration at once:

        • created_at is a builtin audit column — not in datetimeFields, repaired by formatOutput only inside if (this.isSqlite).
        • started_at, completed_at and reverted_at are declared Field.datetime (packages/platform-objects/src/audit/sys-import-job.object.ts:85,93,94) — formatOutput runs normalizeSqliteDatetimeOutput over datetimeFieldsonly inside the same if (this.isSqlite) arm.

        So on Postgres and MySQL all four arrive as JS Dates and String() renders the Date.prototype.toString form — whole seconds, process timezone baked in, no Z:

        Sun Aug 30 2026 18:19:25 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time) <- what the API serves on PG/MySQL
        2026-08-30T10:19:25.947Z <- what it serves on SQLite
        

        Milliseconds are dropped and the value is not Date.parse-safe for any client doing strict ISO parsing. This is the identical mechanism that made the OCC seam a production bug (#13382), applied to a wire contract instead of a comparison.

        Note JSON.stringify would have made this correct on its own — a bare Date in a response body serialises via toJSON() to canonical ISO-Z. The explicit String() is what breaks it.

        Why this is not a ?? fallback

        Per #13973's standing prohibition: which side owes the canonical spelling is the question. Two shapes:

        • A — spell the repair at the mapper, the shape this repo already uses one file over in packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts:7710-7715, which is class (a) precisely because it handles both:
          typeofr.occurred_at==='string' ? r.occurred_at
          : r.occurred_atinstanceofDate ? r.occurred_at.toISOString()
          : String(r.occurred_at??'')
        • B — normalise at the producer (one presented shape per dialect at the read door). Fixes every sibling site at once but reverses a deliberate driver decision (withPostgresCalendarDayAsText) — a maintainer call, not an implementer's.

        Re-run

        rg -n 'String\(row\??\.?(created_at|started_at|completed_at|reverted_at)' packages/rest/src/
        

        Backlink: #13973 (census), #13382 (the OCC seam, the same shape). Neither is addressed here.

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          rest-server: the import-job DTO serves "Sun Aug 30 2026 … GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)" for four timestamp fields on Postgres/MySQL — String() over a Date #13994

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          @zhuangjianguo

          Found by the driver-materialisation consumer census on #13973 (class (c) — genuinely wrong on one side). That sweep is not addressed by this card and does not close it.

          The site

          packages/rest/src/rest-server.ts:515-538, importJobToProgress(row) — the mapper behind the import-job progress and summary REST responses:

          ...(row?.reverted_at ? {revertedAt: String(row.reverted_at)} : {}),// :520
          ...(row?.started_at ? {startedAt: String(row.started_at)} : {}),// :533
          ...(row?.completed_at ? {completedAt: String(row.completed_at)} : {}),// :534createdAt: String(row?.created_at??''),// :536

          row is a sys_import_job record read through the engine's record read door.

          Why it is wrong on the production default driver

          This site is unusual in the census in that it covers both halves of #13973's value enumeration at once:

          • created_at is a builtin audit column — not in datetimeFields, repaired by formatOutput only inside if (this.isSqlite).
          • started_at, completed_at and reverted_at are declared Field.datetime (packages/platform-objects/src/audit/sys-import-job.object.ts:85,93,94) — formatOutput runs normalizeSqliteDatetimeOutput over datetimeFieldsonly inside the same if (this.isSqlite) arm.

          So on Postgres and MySQL all four arrive as JS Dates and String() renders the Date.prototype.toString form — whole seconds, process timezone baked in, no Z:

          Sun Aug 30 2026 18:19:25 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time) <- what the API serves on PG/MySQL
          2026-08-30T10:19:25.947Z <- what it serves on SQLite
          

          Milliseconds are dropped and the value is not Date.parse-safe for any client doing strict ISO parsing. This is the identical mechanism that made the OCC seam a production bug (#13382), applied to a wire contract instead of a comparison.

          Note JSON.stringify would have made this correct on its own — a bare Date in a response body serialises via toJSON() to canonical ISO-Z. The explicit String() is what breaks it.

          Why this is not a ?? fallback

          Per #13973's standing prohibition: which side owes the canonical spelling is the question. Two shapes:

          • A — spell the repair at the mapper, the shape this repo already uses one file over in packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts:7710-7715, which is class (a) precisely because it handles both:
            typeofr.occurred_at==='string' ? r.occurred_at
            : r.occurred_atinstanceofDate ? r.occurred_at.toISOString()
            : String(r.occurred_at??'')
          • B — normalise at the producer (one presented shape per dialect at the read door). Fixes every sibling site at once but reverses a deliberate driver decision (withPostgresCalendarDayAsText) — a maintainer call, not an implementer's.

          Re-run

          rg -n 'String\(row\??\.?(created_at|started_at|completed_at|reverted_at)' packages/rest/src/
          

          Backlink: #13973 (census), #13382 (the OCC seam, the same shape). Neither is addressed here.

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            Description

            @zhuangjianguo

            Found by the driver-materialisation consumer census on #13973 (class (c) — genuinely wrong on one side). That sweep is not addressed by this card and does not close it.

            The site

            packages/rest/src/rest-server.ts:515-538, importJobToProgress(row) — the mapper behind the import-job progress and summary REST responses:

            ...(row?.reverted_at ? {revertedAt: String(row.reverted_at)} : {}),// :520
            ...(row?.started_at ? {startedAt: String(row.started_at)} : {}),// :533
            ...(row?.completed_at ? {completedAt: String(row.completed_at)} : {}),// :534createdAt: String(row?.created_at??''),// :536

            row is a sys_import_job record read through the engine's record read door.

            Why it is wrong on the production default driver

            This site is unusual in the census in that it covers both halves of #13973's value enumeration at once:

            • created_at is a builtin audit column — not in datetimeFields, repaired by formatOutput only inside if (this.isSqlite).
            • started_at, completed_at and reverted_at are declared Field.datetime (packages/platform-objects/src/audit/sys-import-job.object.ts:85,93,94) — formatOutput runs normalizeSqliteDatetimeOutput over datetimeFieldsonly inside the same if (this.isSqlite) arm.

            So on Postgres and MySQL all four arrive as JS Dates and String() renders the Date.prototype.toString form — whole seconds, process timezone baked in, no Z:

            Sun Aug 30 2026 18:19:25 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time) <- what the API serves on PG/MySQL
            2026-08-30T10:19:25.947Z <- what it serves on SQLite
            

            Milliseconds are dropped and the value is not Date.parse-safe for any client doing strict ISO parsing. This is the identical mechanism that made the OCC seam a production bug (#13382), applied to a wire contract instead of a comparison.

            Note JSON.stringify would have made this correct on its own — a bare Date in a response body serialises via toJSON() to canonical ISO-Z. The explicit String() is what breaks it.

            Why this is not a ?? fallback

            Per #13973's standing prohibition: which side owes the canonical spelling is the question. Two shapes:

            • A — spell the repair at the mapper, the shape this repo already uses one file over in packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts:7710-7715, which is class (a) precisely because it handles both:
              typeofr.occurred_at==='string' ? r.occurred_at
              : r.occurred_atinstanceofDate ? r.occurred_at.toISOString()
              : String(r.occurred_at??'')
            • B — normalise at the producer (one presented shape per dialect at the read door). Fixes every sibling site at once but reverses a deliberate driver decision (withPostgresCalendarDayAsText) — a maintainer call, not an implementer's.

            Re-run

            rg -n 'String\(row\??\.?(created_at|started_at|completed_at|reverted_at)' packages/rest/src/
            

            Backlink: #13973 (census), #13382 (the OCC seam, the same shape). Neither is addressed here.

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              rest-server: the import-job DTO serves "Sun Aug 30 2026 … GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)" for four timestamp fields on Postgres/MySQL — String() over a Date #13994

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              @zhuangjianguo

              Found by the driver-materialisation consumer census on #13973 (class (c) — genuinely wrong on one side). That sweep is not addressed by this card and does not close it.

              The site

              packages/rest/src/rest-server.ts:515-538, importJobToProgress(row) — the mapper behind the import-job progress and summary REST responses:

              ...(row?.reverted_at ? {revertedAt: String(row.reverted_at)} : {}),// :520
              ...(row?.started_at ? {startedAt: String(row.started_at)} : {}),// :533
              ...(row?.completed_at ? {completedAt: String(row.completed_at)} : {}),// :534createdAt: String(row?.created_at??''),// :536

              row is a sys_import_job record read through the engine's record read door.

              Why it is wrong on the production default driver

              This site is unusual in the census in that it covers both halves of #13973's value enumeration at once:

              • created_at is a builtin audit column — not in datetimeFields, repaired by formatOutput only inside if (this.isSqlite).
              • started_at, completed_at and reverted_at are declared Field.datetime (packages/platform-objects/src/audit/sys-import-job.object.ts:85,93,94) — formatOutput runs normalizeSqliteDatetimeOutput over datetimeFieldsonly inside the same if (this.isSqlite) arm.

              So on Postgres and MySQL all four arrive as JS Dates and String() renders the Date.prototype.toString form — whole seconds, process timezone baked in, no Z:

              Sun Aug 30 2026 18:19:25 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time) <- what the API serves on PG/MySQL
              2026-08-30T10:19:25.947Z <- what it serves on SQLite
              

              Milliseconds are dropped and the value is not Date.parse-safe for any client doing strict ISO parsing. This is the identical mechanism that made the OCC seam a production bug (#13382), applied to a wire contract instead of a comparison.

              Note JSON.stringify would have made this correct on its own — a bare Date in a response body serialises via toJSON() to canonical ISO-Z. The explicit String() is what breaks it.

              Why this is not a ?? fallback

              Per #13973's standing prohibition: which side owes the canonical spelling is the question. Two shapes:

              • A — spell the repair at the mapper, the shape this repo already uses one file over in packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts:7710-7715, which is class (a) precisely because it handles both:
                typeofr.occurred_at==='string' ? r.occurred_at
                : r.occurred_atinstanceofDate ? r.occurred_at.toISOString()
                : String(r.occurred_at??'')
              • B — normalise at the producer (one presented shape per dialect at the read door). Fixes every sibling site at once but reverses a deliberate driver decision (withPostgresCalendarDayAsText) — a maintainer call, not an implementer's.

              Re-run

              rg -n 'String\(row\??\.?(created_at|started_at|completed_at|reverted_at)' packages/rest/src/
              

              Backlink: #13973 (census), #13382 (the OCC seam, the same shape). Neither is addressed here.

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                rest-server: the import-job DTO serves "Sun Aug 30 2026 … GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)" for four timestamp fields on Postgres/MySQL — String() over a Date #13994

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                @zhuangjianguo

                Found by the driver-materialisation consumer census on #13973 (class (c) — genuinely wrong on one side). That sweep is not addressed by this card and does not close it.

                The site

                packages/rest/src/rest-server.ts:515-538, importJobToProgress(row) — the mapper behind the import-job progress and summary REST responses:

                ...(row?.reverted_at ? {revertedAt: String(row.reverted_at)} : {}),// :520
                ...(row?.started_at ? {startedAt: String(row.started_at)} : {}),// :533
                ...(row?.completed_at ? {completedAt: String(row.completed_at)} : {}),// :534createdAt: String(row?.created_at??''),// :536

                row is a sys_import_job record read through the engine's record read door.

                Why it is wrong on the production default driver

                This site is unusual in the census in that it covers both halves of #13973's value enumeration at once:

                • created_at is a builtin audit column — not in datetimeFields, repaired by formatOutput only inside if (this.isSqlite).
                • started_at, completed_at and reverted_at are declared Field.datetime (packages/platform-objects/src/audit/sys-import-job.object.ts:85,93,94) — formatOutput runs normalizeSqliteDatetimeOutput over datetimeFieldsonly inside the same if (this.isSqlite) arm.

                So on Postgres and MySQL all four arrive as JS Dates and String() renders the Date.prototype.toString form — whole seconds, process timezone baked in, no Z:

                Sun Aug 30 2026 18:19:25 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time) <- what the API serves on PG/MySQL
                2026-08-30T10:19:25.947Z <- what it serves on SQLite
                

                Milliseconds are dropped and the value is not Date.parse-safe for any client doing strict ISO parsing. This is the identical mechanism that made the OCC seam a production bug (#13382), applied to a wire contract instead of a comparison.

                Note JSON.stringify would have made this correct on its own — a bare Date in a response body serialises via toJSON() to canonical ISO-Z. The explicit String() is what breaks it.

                Why this is not a ?? fallback

                Per #13973's standing prohibition: which side owes the canonical spelling is the question. Two shapes:

                • A — spell the repair at the mapper, the shape this repo already uses one file over in packages/metadata-protocol/src/protocol.ts:7710-7715, which is class (a) precisely because it handles both:
                  typeofr.occurred_at==='string' ? r.occurred_at
                  : r.occurred_atinstanceofDate ? r.occurred_at.toISOString()
                  : String(r.occurred_at??'')
                • B — normalise at the producer (one presented shape per dialect at the read door). Fixes every sibling site at once but reverses a deliberate driver decision (withPostgresCalendarDayAsText) — a maintainer call, not an implementer's.

                Re-run

                rg -n 'String\(row\??\.?(created_at|started_at|completed_at|reverted_at)' packages/rest/src/
                

                Backlink: #13973 (census), #13382 (the OCC seam, the same shape). Neither is addressed here.

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