The mobile viewer anchored its "messages around this photo" window on
the legacy date_taken (a wall clock stored as UTC for EXIF rows), while
SMS-API dates are true instants: the window was off by the photo's UTC
offset (4-5 h for photos taken at home; ImageApi #113 user story 3).
Verified SMS-API side: importers store backup epochs as UTC, and 40/40
sampled rows equal their source epochs exactly.
`/image/metadata` (+ GPS / date mutation responses) now carries
`true_instant` from `date_view::file_true_instant`: `row_true_instant`,
else the filename-class instant, else the earliest fs time. Server-side
for the same reason as `wall_clock`: the drain's permanent floor rows
have no `date_utc`. `set_capture_dates` fills both fields at all four
response sites.
dev/e2e: the manifest records each fixture's expected instant (the wall
read in its GPS zone, else America/New_York) and `e2e.sh check` asserts
it (97/97).
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`e2e.sh check` compares every indexed fixture's manifest wall clock with
the `wall_clock` reported by /image/metadata, /memories and
/photos/gps-summary; any disagreement fails.
- Fixture videos are stamped like phone containers: the America/New_York
wall as a UTC creation_time (the label previously showed the UTC time).
- mtimes are pinned in America/New_York instead of the host's zone.
- The e2e env sets TZ=America/New_York (the #120 preflight): the Windows
exe has no /etc/timezone, so server_zone() was otherwise None.
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