fix(scripts): compute nightly-audit 24h window in UTC

scripts/__tests__/nightly-audit-window.test.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+import { describe, it } from "node:test";
+import assert from "node:assert/strict";
+import { execFileSync } from "node:child_process";
+import { readFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import { dirname, resolve } from "node:path";
+import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
+
+// Guard for #511: nightly-audit.sh compares its "24 hours ago" cutoff as a
+// string against GitHub's UTC createdAt/mergedAt. A local-time cutoff runs
+// ahead of UTC on the Mac mini (CET/CEST) and silently drops the first 1–2
+// hours of the window, so every `date` that builds YESTERDAY must pass -u.
+
+const HERE = dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
+const script = readFileSync(resolve(HERE, "..", "nightly-audit.sh"), "utf8");
+const DAY_MS = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
+
+const yesterdayLines = script.split("\n").filter((line) => /^\s*YESTERDAY=/.test(line));
+
+// A `date` command in command position: the start of a $( … ) body or after a
+// ||, &&, | or ; separator. Captures its arguments up to the next separator.
+const DATE_INVOCATION =
+  /(?:\$\(|\|\||&&|[|;])\s*date(?![\w-])((?:\s+(?:'[^']*'|"[^"]*"|[^\s'"|;&)]+))*)/g;
+
+function dateInvocations(line) {
+  return [...line.matchAll(DATE_INVOCATION)].map(
+    (m) => m[1].trim().match(/'[^']*'|"[^"]*"|\S+/g) ?? [],
+  );
+}
+
+describe("nightly-audit YESTERDAY cutoff", () => {
+  it("is assigned exactly once", () => {
+    assert.equal(
+      yesterdayLines.length,
+      1,
+      "expected exactly one YESTERDAY= assignment in nightly-audit.sh",
+    );
+  });
+
+  it("passes -u to every date invocation", () => {
+    const [line] = yesterdayLines;
+    const invocations = dateInvocations(line);
+    // Every whole-word `date` on the line must be one we parsed, so a `date` in
+    // an unexpected position fails loudly instead of escaping the -u check.
+    const bareDates = line.match(/(?<![\w$.-])date(?![\w-])/g) ?? [];
+    assert.equal(
+      invocations.length,
+      bareDates.length,
+      `could not parse every date invocation on: ${line}`,
+    );
+    assert.ok(
+      invocations.length >= 2,
+      `expected the macOS (-v) and GNU (-d) date branches, found ${invocations.length}`,
+    );
+    for (const args of invocations) {
+      assert.ok(
+        args.includes("-u"),
+        `date ${args.join(" ")} must pass -u to compare against GitHub's UTC timestamps`,
+      );
+    }
+  });
+
+  it("evaluates to the UTC time 24h ago regardless of the local timezone", () => {
+    const [line] = yesterdayLines;
+    // POSIX TZ string (UTC+05:45, no DST) so the check needs no tzdata; a
+    // local-time cutoff would land 5h45m away from the UTC one.
+    const cutoff = execFileSync("bash", ["-c", `${line}\nprintf '%s' "$YESTERDAY"`], {
+      env: { ...process.env, TZ: "XYZ-05:45" },
+      encoding: "utf8",
+    });
+    assert.match(cutoff, /^\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}T\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}$/);
+
+    const cutoffMs = Date.parse(`${cutoff}Z`);
+    const drift = Math.abs(cutoffMs - (Date.now() - DAY_MS));
+    assert.ok(drift < 60_000, `cutoff ${cutoff} is ${drift}ms away from UTC now-24h`);
+
+    // jq's string >= against GitHub's Z-suffixed form keeps the boundary second.
+    const github = (ms) => new Date(ms).toISOString().replace(/\.\d{3}Z$/, "Z");
+    assert.ok(github(cutoffMs) >= cutoff);
+    assert.ok(github(cutoffMs + 1000) >= cutoff);
+    assert.ok(!(github(cutoffMs - 1000) >= cutoff));
+  });
+});

scripts/nightly-audit.sh

@@ -40,8 +40,10 @@ trap cleanup EXIT
 
 log "=== Nightly audit started ==="
 
-# 24-hours-ago timestamp for filtering (macOS date -v)
-YESTERDAY=$(date -v-24H +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S 2>/dev/null || date -d '24 hours ago' +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S)
+# 24-hours-ago timestamp for filtering (macOS date -v, GNU date -d fallback).
+# UTC (-u) to match GitHub's Z-suffixed createdAt/mergedAt, which the jq filters
+# below compare as strings — a local-time cutoff would silently shrink the window.
+YESTERDAY=$(date -u -v-24H +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S 2>/dev/null || date -u -d '24 hours ago' +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S)
 
 # ── Section A: Stage 1 — Issue Creation Health ──
 log "--- Section A: Issue Creation Health ---"