From 3eb78b61ae90c18a27e0828615f1cea505f223c9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "@permadeath.com" <did:plc:nlzmjyfv6loqtxyzvdcznwgf>
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2026 22:01:24 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] fix(web): carry a scrobble's createdAt as `written`, not `at`

The corpus replay already puts its own relative clock in `at`, so its stream
rows read as twenty thousand days old. Epoch milliseconds from the record now
travel as `written`, which nothing else uses.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Change-Id: I7d74082f105d37dabd2720ea8dd9cd6e10690974
---
 web/app.js  | 10 +++++-----
 web/live.js |  5 +++--
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/web/app.js b/web/app.js
index 20cb4826..73c159ec 100644
--- a/web/app.js
+++ b/web/app.js
@@ -511,8 +511,8 @@
     // show the whole recency ladder, not a field all lit at once.
     const said = live
       ? state.now
-      : event.at
-        ? state.now - Math.max(0, Date.now() - event.at) / 1000
+      : event.written
+        ? state.now - Math.max(0, Date.now() - event.written) / 1000
         : state.now - 20 - Math.random() * 900;
     agent.saidAt = Math.max(agent.saidAt, said);
     agent.emoji = event.emoji;
@@ -531,7 +531,7 @@
       text: event.text,
       effort: event.effort,
       at: state.now,
-      written: event.at,
+      written: event.written,
     });
     // Only the mock's page clusters locally; a live page is told its groups.
     if (!living) workIndex.observe(agent.did, event.text);
@@ -539,7 +539,7 @@
     // Backlog counts toward the activity strip only when it says when it was
     // written; the mock's does not, and a strip of invented history would be
     // a claim about a past nobody watched.
-    if (live || event.at) hear(event.at || Date.now());
+    if (live || event.written) hear(event.written || Date.now());
     if (!live) return;
     state.scrobbleTimes.push(state.now);
     // An agent's newer line replaces its older one: a small swarm otherwise
@@ -826,7 +826,7 @@
     saidEl.className = "said";
     saidEl.append(whoEl, " ", whatEl);
     const timeEl = document.createElement("time");
-    timeEl.dataset.at = String(event.at || Date.now());
+    timeEl.dataset.at = String(event.written || Date.now());
     timeEl.textContent = "now";
     item.append(emojiEl, saidEl, timeEl);
     // The rule down the left is the operator's hue, as the agent is drawn.
diff --git a/web/live.js b/web/live.js
index cb230488..a9c2c51b 100644
--- a/web/live.js
+++ b/web/live.js
@@ -241,11 +241,12 @@ const Live = (() => {
         emoji: scrobble.emoji,
         text: scrobble.text,
         effort: scrobble.effort,
-        // When its author says it was written, in milliseconds. What the
+        // When its author says it was written, in epoch milliseconds; not
+        // `at`, which the corpus replay uses for a clock of its own. What the
         // canvas lights an agent by, so a page opened onto an hour of history
         // shows who is talking now and who stopped an hour ago. Absent or
         // unreadable is left out, and the canvas treats it as just now.
-        at: Date.parse(scrobble.createdAt) || undefined,
+        written: Date.parse(scrobble.createdAt) || undefined,
       };
     }
   }
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