diff --git a/packages/ui/src/bodies/CleanupForm.tsx b/packages/ui/src/bodies/CleanupForm.tsx
index 7cfff066..673f4fd0 100644
--- a/packages/ui/src/bodies/CleanupForm.tsx
+++ b/packages/ui/src/bodies/CleanupForm.tsx
@@ -55,8 +55,8 @@ import {
   endTimeAfter,
   endTimeSelectable,
   formInstantMs,
-  mergeDateTime,
   scheduleFieldErrors,
+  timeCarrier,
 } from "./calendarModel"
 import { InlineDateTimePicker } from "./InlineDateTimePicker"
 import { ReportLinkPicker } from "./ReportLinkPicker"
@@ -498,8 +498,10 @@ export function CleanupForm({
     (date: Date) => {
       const before =
         value.date && value.time ? formInstantMs(value.date, value.time, value.timezone) : null
-      const time = value.time ? mergeDateTime(date, value.time) : value.time
-      const endTime = value.endTime ? mergeDateTime(date, value.endTime) : value.endTime
+      const time = value.time ? timeCarrier(date, value.time.getHours(), value.time.getMinutes()) : value.time
+      const endTime = value.endTime
+        ? timeCarrier(date, value.endTime.getHours(), value.endTime.getMinutes())
+        : value.endTime
       const after = time ? formInstantMs(date, time, value.timezone) : null
       patch({
         date,
@@ -595,6 +597,7 @@ export function CleanupForm({
         day: "numeric",
         hour: "numeric",
         minute: "2-digit",
+        timeZone: value.timezone,
       }),
     }
   }, [value, locale])
diff --git a/packages/ui/src/bodies/CreateCleanupBody.tsx b/packages/ui/src/bodies/CreateCleanupBody.tsx
index 87ac46fb..d7b78516 100644
--- a/packages/ui/src/bodies/CreateCleanupBody.tsx
+++ b/packages/ui/src/bodies/CreateCleanupBody.tsx
@@ -61,7 +61,6 @@ import {
   hasValidEventEnd,
   emptyCleanupForm,
   isCleanupFormComplete,
-  mergeDateTime,
   type CleanupFormSection,
   type CleanupFormValue,
 } from "./CleanupForm"
@@ -222,18 +221,19 @@ function ReviewSummary({
   const label = useReverseLabel(value.coords)
 
   const empty = t("wizard.empty")
+  const startMs =
+    value.date && value.time ? formInstantMs(value.date, value.time, value.timezone) : null
   const whenText =
-    value.date && value.time
-      ? mergeDateTime(value.date, value.time).toLocaleString(locale, {
+    startMs !== null
+      ? new Date(startMs).toLocaleString(locale, {
           weekday: "short",
           month: "short",
           day: "numeric",
           hour: "numeric",
           minute: "2-digit",
+          timeZone: value.timezone,
         })
       : empty
-  const startMs =
-    value.date && value.time ? formInstantMs(value.date, value.time, value.timezone) : null
   const endMs =
     value.date && value.time && value.endTime
       ? formEndInstantMs(value.date, value.time, value.endTime, value.timezone)
diff --git a/packages/ui/src/bodies/EditCleanupBody.tsx b/packages/ui/src/bodies/EditCleanupBody.tsx
index 19f9cfe2..01098bbb 100644
--- a/packages/ui/src/bodies/EditCleanupBody.tsx
+++ b/packages/ui/src/bodies/EditCleanupBody.tsx
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ import {
   isScheduleInFutureInZone,
   isScheduleUntouched,
   wallClockToFormDate,
+  wallClockToFormTime,
 } from "./calendarModel"
 import { wallClockInZone } from "@civfix/shared/datetime"
 import { CleanupForm, isCleanupFormComplete, type CleanupFormValue } from "./CleanupForm"
@@ -49,7 +50,7 @@ function saveErrorMessage(err: unknown, t: Translate): string {
 
 function formFromCleanup(cleanup: CleanupDTO): CleanupFormValue {
   const timezone = cleanup.timezone ?? viewerTimeZone()
-  const when = wallClockToFormDate(wallClockInZone(Date.parse(cleanup.scheduledAt), timezone))
+  const start = wallClockInZone(Date.parse(cleanup.scheduledAt), timezone)
   return {
     organizationId: cleanup.organization?.id ?? null,
     title: cleanup.title,
@@ -64,8 +65,8 @@ function formFromCleanup(cleanup: CleanupDTO): CleanupFormValue {
         ? geocodePointKey({ lat: cleanup.lat, lng: cleanup.lng })
         : null,
     coords: cleanup.lat != null && cleanup.lng != null ? { lat: cleanup.lat, lng: cleanup.lng } : null,
-    date: when,
-    time: when,
+    date: wallClockToFormDate(start),
+    time: wallClockToFormTime(start),
     endTime: seededEndTime(cleanup, timezone),
     timezone,
     bring: cleanup.bring ?? [],
diff --git a/packages/ui/src/bodies/InlineDateTimePicker.native.tsx b/packages/ui/src/bodies/InlineDateTimePicker.native.tsx
index a4625d2d..da14d0ca 100644
--- a/packages/ui/src/bodies/InlineDateTimePicker.native.tsx
+++ b/packages/ui/src/bodies/InlineDateTimePicker.native.tsx
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import { useTheme } from "../theme"
 import { Icon, iconMap } from "../typography"
 import { useLocale } from "../i18n"
 import { DateTimeFieldRow, InlineDateTimePickerLayout } from "./DateTimeFieldRow"
-import { uses24HourClock } from "./calendarModel"
+import { timeCarrier, uses24HourClock } from "./calendarModel"
 import {
   TIME_PICKER_MINUTE_INTERVAL,
   type DateFieldRowProps,
@@ -102,14 +102,13 @@ export function TimeFieldRow({
 }: TimeFieldRowProps) {
   const th = useTheme()
   const { locale } = useLocale()
-  const current = value ?? day ?? new Date()
+  const base = day ?? new Date()
+  const current = value ?? timeCarrier(base, base.getHours(), base.getMinutes())
 
   const commit = useCallback(
     (event: DateTimePickerEvent, picked?: Date) => {
       if (event.type === "dismissed" || picked === undefined) return
-      const next = new Date(day ?? value ?? picked)
-      next.setHours(picked.getHours(), picked.getMinutes(), 0, 0)
-      onChange(next)
+      onChange(timeCarrier(day ?? value ?? picked, picked.getHours(), picked.getMinutes()))
     },
     [day, onChange, value],
   )
diff --git a/packages/ui/src/bodies/InlineDateTimePicker.web.tsx b/packages/ui/src/bodies/InlineDateTimePicker.web.tsx
index 28408881..7e008634 100644
--- a/packages/ui/src/bodies/InlineDateTimePicker.web.tsx
+++ b/packages/ui/src/bodies/InlineDateTimePicker.web.tsx
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import {
   type InlineDateTimePickerProps,
   type TimeFieldRowProps,
 } from "./InlineDateTimePicker.types"
+import { timeCarrier } from "./calendarModel"
 
 function pad(value: number): string {
   return String(value).padStart(2, "0")
@@ -152,9 +153,7 @@ export function TimeFieldRow({
           onChange={(event) => {
             const parsed = parseTimeInput(event.target.value)
             if (parsed === null) return
-            const next = new Date(day ?? value ?? new Date())
-            next.setHours(parsed.hours, parsed.minutes, 0, 0)
-            onChange(next)
+            onChange(timeCarrier(day ?? value ?? new Date(), parsed.hours, parsed.minutes))
           }}
         />
       }
diff --git a/packages/ui/src/bodies/SlotWindowPicker.tsx b/packages/ui/src/bodies/SlotWindowPicker.tsx
index 635b0a37..6028c92d 100644
--- a/packages/ui/src/bodies/SlotWindowPicker.tsx
+++ b/packages/ui/src/bodies/SlotWindowPicker.tsx
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import { View } from "react-native"
 import { timeLabel, wallClockInZone, wallClockToInstantMs } from "@civfix/shared/datetime"
 import { makeThemedStyles } from "../theme"
 import { useLocale, useT } from "../i18n"
-import { addWallClockDays, wallClockToFormDate } from "./calendarModel"
+import { addWallClockDays, wallClockToFormTime } from "./calendarModel"
 import { MIN_SLOT_DURATION_MS } from "./eventSlotsForm"
 import { TimeFieldRow } from "./InlineDateTimePicker"
 import { TIME_PICKER_MINUTE_INTERVAL } from "./InlineDateTimePicker.types"
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ export interface SlotWindowPickerProps {
 }
 
 function carrierOf(instant: Date, timeZone: string): Date {
-  return wallClockToFormDate(wallClockInZone(instant.getTime(), timeZone))
+  return wallClockToFormTime(wallClockInZone(instant.getTime(), timeZone))
 }
 
 export function clockOnEventDay(clock: Date, eventStart: Date, timeZone: string): number | null {
diff --git a/packages/ui/src/bodies/__tests__/deviceDstGapTimeCarrier.test.ts b/packages/ui/src/bodies/__tests__/deviceDstGapTimeCarrier.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8ca8fe6d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/ui/src/bodies/__tests__/deviceDstGapTimeCarrier.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+process.env.TZ = "America/Los_Angeles"
+
+import { readFileSync } from "node:fs"
+import { describe, expect, it } from "vitest"
+import {
+  formInstantMs,
+  formWallClock,
+  timeCarrier,
+  wallClockToFormDate,
+  wallClockToFormTime,
+} from "../calendarModel"
+import { buildEventPreviewCard } from "../feedShare"
+
+const code = (rel: string) => readFileSync(new URL(rel, import.meta.url), "utf8")
+
+// 2026-03-08 is the US spring-forward day: on this (Los Angeles) device 02:00-02:59 does not exist, while an
+// event in Phoenix (no DST) runs at 02:30 that night like any other.
+const gapDay = () => new Date(2026, 2, 8, 12)
+const PHOENIX = "America/Phoenix"
+const PHOENIX_0230_UTC = Date.UTC(2026, 2, 8, 9, 30)
+const organizer = { id: "u-1", displayName: "Host", handle: null, avatarUrl: null } as never
+
+describe("a clock inside the DEVICE's DST gap survives the event form", () => {
+  it("the device really has the gap: a Date on that day cannot hold 02:30", () => {
+    const naive = new Date(2026, 2, 8, 2, 30)
+    expect([naive.getHours(), naive.getMinutes()]).toEqual([3, 30])
+  })
+
+  it("keeps 02:30 as the picked time and saves 02:30 in the event's zone", () => {
+    const time = timeCarrier(gapDay(), 2, 30)
+    expect([time.getHours(), time.getMinutes()]).toEqual([2, 30])
+    expect(formWallClock(gapDay(), time)).toEqual({ year: 2026, month: 3, day: 8, hours: 2, minutes: 30 })
+    expect(formInstantMs(gapDay(), time, PHOENIX)).toBe(PHOENIX_0230_UTC)
+  })
+
+  it("keeps the carrier on the picked day when that day has no offset change", () => {
+    const time = timeCarrier(new Date(2026, 5, 10, 12), 2, 30)
+    expect(time.getTime()).toBe(new Date(2026, 5, 10, 2, 30).getTime())
+  })
+
+  it("loads a saved 02:30 event back as 02:30, on its own day", () => {
+    const wallClock = { year: 2026, month: 3, day: 8, hours: 2, minutes: 30 }
+    expect(formWallClock(wallClockToFormDate(wallClock), wallClockToFormTime(wallClock))).toEqual(wallClock)
+  })
+
+  it("previews the share card at the event-zone instant, not the device-shifted one", () => {
+    const card = buildEventPreviewCard(
+      {
+        title: "Night market",
+        eventKind: "cleanup",
+        coords: null,
+        date: gapDay(),
+        time: timeCarrier(gapDay(), 2, 30),
+        timezone: PHOENIX,
+      },
+      organizer,
+    )
+    expect(card?.scheduledAt).toBe(new Date(PHOENIX_0230_UTC).toISOString())
+  })
+
+  it("also holds where the device's gap starts at midnight (Santiago, 2026-09-06 00:00 -> 01:00)", () => {
+    process.env.TZ = "America/Santiago"
+    try {
+      const day = new Date(2026, 8, 6, 12)
+      expect(new Date(2026, 8, 6, 0, 30).getHours()).toBe(1)
+      const time = timeCarrier(day, 0, 30)
+      expect([time.getHours(), time.getMinutes()]).toEqual([0, 30])
+      expect(formInstantMs(day, time, "America/Lima")).toBe(Date.UTC(2026, 8, 6, 5, 30))
+    } finally {
+      process.env.TZ = "America/Los_Angeles"
+    }
+  })
+
+  it("is how both pickers, the date change and the edit, duplicate, wizard and slot seeds build a time", () => {
+    const native = code("../InlineDateTimePicker.native.tsx")
+    expect(code("../InlineDateTimePicker.web.tsx")).toContain(
+      "onChange(timeCarrier(day ?? value ?? new Date(), parsed.hours, parsed.minutes))",
+    )
+    expect(native).toContain(
+      "onChange(timeCarrier(day ?? value ?? picked, picked.getHours(), picked.getMinutes()))",
+    )
+    expect(native).toContain("const current = value ?? timeCarrier(base, base.getHours(), base.getMinutes())")
+    expect(code("../CleanupForm.tsx")).toContain("timeCarrier(date, value.time.getHours(), value.time.getMinutes())")
+    expect(code("../host/dashboard/DuplicateEventSheet.tsx")).toContain("setTime(wallClockToFormTime(wallClock))")
+    expect(code("../EditCleanupBody.tsx")).toContain("time: wallClockToFormTime(start)")
+    expect(code("../eventWizard.ts")).toContain("wallClockToFormTime(wallClockInZone(endMs, timeZone))")
+    expect(code("../SlotWindowPicker.tsx")).toContain("wallClockToFormTime(wallClockInZone(instant.getTime(), timeZone))")
+  })
+})
diff --git a/packages/ui/src/bodies/__tests__/feedShare.test.ts b/packages/ui/src/bodies/__tests__/feedShare.test.ts
index e7fe5a6b..b2506122 100644
--- a/packages/ui/src/bodies/__tests__/feedShare.test.ts
+++ b/packages/ui/src/bodies/__tests__/feedShare.test.ts
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ describe("buildEventPreviewCard", () => {
   const time = new Date("2026-08-01T00:00:00.000Z")
 
   it("returns null until title + date + time all exist", () => {
-    const base = { eventKind: "cleanup" as const, coords: { lat: 1, lng: 2 } }
+    const base = { eventKind: "cleanup" as const, coords: { lat: 1, lng: 2 }, timezone: "UTC" }
     expect(buildEventPreviewCard({ ...base, title: "", date, time }, me)).toBeNull()
     expect(buildEventPreviewCard({ ...base, title: "Beach", date: null, time }, me)).toBeNull()
     expect(buildEventPreviewCard({ ...base, title: "Beach", date, time: null }, me)).toBeNull()
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ describe("buildEventPreviewCard", () => {
 
   it("builds a LinkedEventRef once the three fields exist", () => {
     const card = buildEventPreviewCard(
-      { title: " Beach cleanup ", eventKind: "cleanup", coords: { lat: 1, lng: 2 }, date, time },
+      { title: " Beach cleanup ", eventKind: "cleanup", coords: { lat: 1, lng: 2 }, date, time, timezone: "UTC" },
       me,
       "2026-07-25T00:00:00.000Z",
     )
diff --git a/packages/ui/src/bodies/calendarModel.ts b/packages/ui/src/bodies/calendarModel.ts
index 614f254f..dc898f3a 100644
--- a/packages/ui/src/bodies/calendarModel.ts
+++ b/packages/ui/src/bodies/calendarModel.ts
@@ -98,6 +98,30 @@ export function timeSlots(locale: string): TimeSlot[] {
 
 export const PAST_SCHEDULE_GRACE_MS = 60_000
 
+// Probed at instants 12 h either side of local noon, never at a local midnight: in zones whose gap starts at
+// 00:00 (Santiago, Havana, Beirut) midnight itself does not exist and would read the new offset.
+function clockAnchorDay(day: Date): Date {
+  const noon = new Date(day.getFullYear(), day.getMonth(), day.getDate(), 12)
+  const halfDayMs = 12 * 3_600_000
+  const offsetChanges =
+    new Date(noon.getTime() - halfDayMs).getTimezoneOffset() !==
+    new Date(noon.getTime() + halfDayMs).getTimezoneOffset()
+  if (offsetChanges) noon.setDate(noon.getDate() - 1)
+  return noon
+}
+
+/**
+ * The form's time field: a device-local Date whose hours and minutes are the event-zone clock; the day
+ * comes from the date field. A Date on the DEVICE's own DST-change day cannot hold a clock in its
+ * spring-forward gap (setHours moves 02:30 to 03:30, and that clock would be saved), so on such a day
+ * the carrier sits on the day before, which never changes offset too.
+ */
+export function timeCarrier(day: Date, hours: number, minutes: number): Date {
+  const carrier = clockAnchorDay(day)
+  carrier.setHours(hours, minutes, 0, 0)
+  return carrier
+}
+
 export function mergeDateTime(date: Date, time: Date): Date {
   const merged = new Date(date)
   merged.setHours(time.getHours(), time.getMinutes(), 0, 0)
@@ -241,6 +265,14 @@ export function wallClockToFormDate(wallClock: WallClock): Date {
   )
 }
 
+export function wallClockToFormTime(wallClock: WallClock): Date {
+  return timeCarrier(
+    new Date(wallClock.year, wallClock.month - 1, wallClock.day, 12),
+    wallClock.hours,
+    wallClock.minutes,
+  )
+}
+
 export function addWallClockDays(wallClock: WallClock, days: number): WallClock {
   const anchor = new Date(Date.UTC(wallClock.year, wallClock.month - 1, wallClock.day, 12))
   const moved = new Date(anchor.getTime() + days * DAY_MS)
@@ -284,7 +316,7 @@ export function todayInZone(timeZone: string, now: number = Date.now()): Date {
 }
 
 export function nowClockInZone(timeZone: string, now: number = Date.now()): Date {
-  return wallClockToFormDate(wallClockInZone(now, timeZone))
+  return wallClockToFormTime(wallClockInZone(now, timeZone))
 }
 
 export function eventWindowInZone(
diff --git a/packages/ui/src/bodies/eventWizard.ts b/packages/ui/src/bodies/eventWizard.ts
index 2bc72e5c..4eef3cb8 100644
--- a/packages/ui/src/bodies/eventWizard.ts
+++ b/packages/ui/src/bodies/eventWizard.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ import {
   eventWindowInZone,
   isScheduleInFutureInZone,
   isScheduleUntouched,
-  wallClockToFormDate,
+  wallClockToFormTime,
 } from "./calendarModel"
 import { wallClockInZone } from "@civfix/shared/datetime"
 import { isEventAddressComplete } from "./eventAddressField"
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ export function seededEndTime(cleanup: EventScheduleSource, timeZone?: string):
   if (Number.isNaN(endMs)) return new Date(Number.NaN)
   return timeZone === undefined
     ? new Date(endMs)
-    : wallClockToFormDate(wallClockInZone(endMs, timeZone))
+    : wallClockToFormTime(wallClockInZone(endMs, timeZone))
 }
 
 export function eventWindowUntouched(
diff --git a/packages/ui/src/bodies/feedShare.ts b/packages/ui/src/bodies/feedShare.ts
index e9e38146..6f4b55a3 100644
--- a/packages/ui/src/bodies/feedShare.ts
+++ b/packages/ui/src/bodies/feedShare.ts
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import type {
   ReportType,
 } from "@civfix/shared"
 import { appErrorCode } from "./errorCode"
-import { mergeDateTime } from "./calendarModel"
+import { formInstantMs } from "./calendarModel"
 import type { LinkedReportCardData } from "./LinkedReportCard"
 
 export interface FeedShareAuthUser {
@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ export interface FeedShareEventDraft {
   coords: { lat: number; lng: number } | null
   date: Date | null
   time: Date | null
+  timezone: string
 }
 
 export function buildEventPreviewCard(
@@ -116,13 +117,14 @@ export function buildEventPreviewCard(
 ): LinkedEventRef | null {
   const title = draft.title.trim()
   if (!title || !draft.date || !draft.time) return null
-  const scheduled = mergeDateTime(draft.date, draft.time)
+  const scheduledMs = formInstantMs(draft.date, draft.time, draft.timezone)
+  if (scheduledMs === null) return null
   return {
     id: "draft",
     title,
     eventKind: draft.eventKind,
     status: "upcoming",
-    scheduledAt: scheduled.toISOString(),
+    scheduledAt: new Date(scheduledMs).toISOString(),
     lat: draft.coords?.lat ?? 0,
     lng: draft.coords?.lng ?? 0,
     going: 1,
diff --git a/packages/ui/src/bodies/host/dashboard/DuplicateEventSheet.tsx b/packages/ui/src/bodies/host/dashboard/DuplicateEventSheet.tsx
index f31c0747..89b57a37 100644
--- a/packages/ui/src/bodies/host/dashboard/DuplicateEventSheet.tsx
+++ b/packages/ui/src/bodies/host/dashboard/DuplicateEventSheet.tsx
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import { useNavStore } from "../../../nav"
 import { useDuplicateCleanup } from "../../../data/hooks/cleanups"
 import { InlineDateTimePicker } from "../../InlineDateTimePicker"
 import { TimezoneField } from "../../TimezoneField"
-import { formInstantMs, mergeDateTime, wallClockToFormDate } from "../../calendarModel"
+import { formInstantMs, timeCarrier, wallClockToFormDate, wallClockToFormTime } from "../../calendarModel"
 import { appErrorCode } from "../../errorCode"
 import { duplicateErrorKey, duplicateReady, nextDuplicateStart } from "./dashboardModel"
 
@@ -31,11 +31,9 @@ export function DuplicateEventSheet({ event, onClose }: DuplicateEventSheetProps
 
   useEffect(() => {
     if (!event) return
-    const seed = wallClockToFormDate(
-      nextDuplicateStart(event.startsAt, event.timezone, new Date()).wallClock,
-    )
-    setDate(seed)
-    setTime(seed)
+    const { wallClock } = nextDuplicateStart(event.startsAt, event.timezone, new Date())
+    setDate(wallClockToFormDate(wallClock))
+    setTime(wallClockToFormTime(wallClock))
     setErrorText(null)
     duplicate.reset()
   }, [event])
@@ -106,7 +104,7 @@ export function DuplicateEventSheet({ event, onClose }: DuplicateEventSheetProps
         timeZone={timeZone}
         onDateChange={(next) => {
           setDate(next)
-          setTime((current) => (current ? mergeDateTime(next, current) : current))
+          setTime((current) => (current ? timeCarrier(next, current.getHours(), current.getMinutes()) : current))
         }}
         onTimeChange={setTime}
       />