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Agent sessions read UTC while the filesystem reads local time — a finished build looks 'in flight' and you draw the wrong conclusion

Concrete miss, worth a guard rail. An omp/Claude-style session's injected context stamps are UTC (session id 2026-08-25T08-27-08Z , "started 30m ago"), while stat , ls -l and date in the same repo report local time. On a UTC-7 machine that is a 7-hour offset in the same conversation. What it…

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