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Defect

test/churnjoincheck.sh compared ripwire's churn with git's own count, but the two sides did not always ask about the same window.

• The observed flake. The live audit passed --since="2 weeks ago" to ripwire and "2 weeks ago" to the git oracle, and each side evaluated it when it ran. A commit on the edge fell inside one window and outside the other. integration: train 2 — param receiver binding (#248), untyped receiver locality + final-segment disclosure (#254), std:: field compose (#257) #265 went red on src/slice.h churn 15 vs 14, from commit 16efdbc at the two-week boundary. That was a rerun cause, not a defect.
• The same bug, slower. ripwire anchors its default churn window on HEAD's committer epoch minus 12 calendar months (gitmine.h defaultWindowSince, stamped window="12mo@HEAD"). All ten default-window oracles in this gate asked git for wall-clock "12 months ago" instead. That is a different window: it holds the same commits today, and it stops holding them on 2027-06-01, when the fixtures' 2026-06 commits leave the wall clock's year.
• An inert arm next to those oracles. The offset re-derivation (arm 10) still selected the retired p="./…" spelling. It read 0 rows and printed all 0 rows … re-derive as a PASS.

Change (test-only, one file)

• One clock read. NOW_EPOCH is read once. SINCE_2W is derived from it as an ISO-8601 UTC instant, and that identical string goes to both ripwire and git. ripwire hands a date-shaped --since to git verbatim, and git reads YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ to the second in UTC; both facts were checked before relying on them.
• The anchored start. defaultWindowStart REPO computes the HEAD-anchored start using monthsBeforeEpoch's rule, and every default-window oracle now uses it. The fixture arms no longer depend on the wall clock at all.
• New arm 4b pins both rules to the second:
  • A commit dated exactly on the two-week edge is inside on both sides (1/1) and outside on both sides one second later (0/0).
  • A commit exactly on the anchored edge is counted, and one a second earlier is not (1/1 and 0/0).
  • Two controls must stay red. "2 weeks ago" read by ripwire at N and by git at N+1 must disagree; this is staged with GIT_TEST_DATE_NOW, git's own clock override, which ripwire's git child inherits. The wall-clock oracle must drop the anchored edge commit that the default counts. If a git ignores GIT_TEST_DATE_NOW, the first control prints an arm-level SKIP with the reason.
• Arm 10 now reads its rows whether or not they carry a leading ./, and requires the row count to equal ranked=. It reads 163 rows, and all of them match git.

Red first (main's gate vs this gate, the same stagings)

staging	main's churnjoincheck.sh	this branch
none	rc=0, 72 PASS (arm 10 reads 0 rows)	rc=0, 78 PASS, 0 FAIL, 0 SKIP
#265's straddle: ripwire reads "2 weeks ago" at 8083ea9's epoch + 14 d, the gate's git one second later	rc=1, 4 FAIL: src/slice.h churn="12" vs 11, src/verbs_report.h 36 vs 35, src/infra/sortutil.h 2 vs 1, "3 of 406 rows disagree"	rc=0, 78 PASS
git's clock at 2027-07-01	rc=1, 12 FAIL (rename, spelling and offset fixtures)	rc=0, 78 PASS

The staging runs used a copy of main's gate named test/.gateprobe.* (gitignored, removed afterwards), and a RIPWIRE_BIN wrapper that moves ripwire's clock only when it inherits the staged value.

Sweep of test/ for the same double reading

No other gate evaluates a relative date on both sides of a comparison.

• sincecheck, hotspotsincecheck and modifierguardcheck pass a relative --since and check only exit codes, refusals or the window= label.
• recentscopecheck arm 10e checks only paging attributes.
• gitstampcheck and qddialscheck compute their relative timestamp once, for a fixture date.
• sincewindowcheck and sincecochangecheck use absolute dates.

Gates

• churnjoincheck as above.
• gateexitcheck 22 PASS, manifestcheck 16 PASS, skipclassifycheck 22 PASS, gatecountcheck 6 PASS.
• docs/gatecount_build.py --check (621) and docs/limits_build.py --check agree. No gate file was added and the loop is unchanged.
• --quality-delta=$(git merge-base origin/main HEAD)..HEAD: regressions="0" gating="0".

Shared products

None: no loop change, shard weight, pin, kParserVer or qschemetrip change. CHANGELOG is held, as with #261, so this lands directly; its entry goes into train 1b's CHANGELOG union.

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• Tests
  • Improved churn comparison test reliability by ensuring date-window checks use a consistent reference time.
  • Added coverage for two-week and boundary-date scenarios in live repository audits.
  • Strengthened subdirectory audit validation to verify both matching results and expected record counts.

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The churn test now uses shared absolute UTC windows for ripwire and Git comparisons. It adds boundary fixtures, updates scenario oracles, and strengthens subdirectory-root result validation.

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Churn window test corrections

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Absolute window derivation test/churnjoincheck.sh	The test derives ISO-8601 UTC windows from one clock read or from the HEAD committer timestamp.
Window edge auditing test/churnjoincheck.sh	Live audits use matching absolute windows. New fixtures check exact boundary and one-second-past behavior.
Oracle and root audit updates test/churnjoincheck.sh	Scenario oracles and Git path counts use the derived window. The subdirectory-root audit accepts optional ./ prefixes and requires a non-zero count matching ranked=.

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The test will eventually fail despite correct churn behavior when its fixed historical edge enters the current wall-clock window. Skip the obsolete comparison once the windows converge.

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CR 4034076372	test/churnjoincheck.sh:384: skip the wall-clock control "once 12 months ago reaches" the fixed edge commit (2025-06-09T12:00:00Z), because W_WALL would become 1	DECLINE: the drift runs the other way	The wall-clock window starts at now − 12 months, and that start moves later as time passes: 2025-09-17 today, 2026-07-01 on 2027-07-01. It moves away from the fixed 2025-06-09 commit, never onto it, so W_WALL stays 0 for every clock after 2026-06-09. A clock before that date would put every 2026-06-dated fixture commit in this gate in the future, and the whole gate would be wrong anyway, so a skip for this one arm would hide nothing real. Measured: with git's clock staged at 2027-07-01 (GIT_TEST_DATE_NOW=1814400000), this arm prints PASS anchor control: the wall-clock oracle "12 months ago" names in.cpp in 0 commits where the anchored default counts 1, and the gate is 78 PASS / 0 FAIL. The same staging on main's gate gives 12 FAIL.
CR pre-merge check	Docstring Coverage 71.43% < 80%	DECLINE	This is CodeRabbit's generic threshold, not a project rule, and the same warning is on #236, #241, #249, #250, #258 and #260. The helpers this PR adds (isoUtc, defaultWindowStart, gitEdgeCount) each carry a usage comment in the file's existing style.