@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
       "title": "Studio follows the in-app locale switch — no mixed-language session",
       "since": "v16",
       "status": "active",
-      "revision": 7,
+      "revision": 8,
       "priority": "P2",
       "surface": "browser",
       "personas": ["admin"],
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@
         "sign in as admin on the showcase, switch the in-app locale to zh-CN, and confirm the app shell followed (nav in zh-CN). To switch, use the avatar-menu language switcher (it writes the user's locale); seeding browser storage alone is not a language switch — a run that only seeds the UI language in browser storage leaves the user's stored locale empty, so dates follow the browser and a FAIL read off it is the harness's, not the product's",
         "navigate into Studio / metadata-admin: open the object editor for showcase_project and the dashboard designer for showcase_chart_gallery",
         "screenshot the object editor's form — its section and field labels come from objectui's metadata-admin catalogue (`designer.object.*` in ui/packages/app-shell/src/views/metadata-admin/i18n.ts, in this checkout), not from the served metadataForms translation group (packages/spec/src/system/translation.zod.ts): judge them against that catalogue (e.g. section 基础信息 with hint 标识、显示名与分类)",
-        "screenshot a surface showing RELATIVE dates in the switched locale: the Studio Data pillar's records grid (/_console/studio/<package>/data, an object's records), whose timestamps render as '6天前'-style relative forms. The metadata list and history surfaces show none — history renders absolute timestamps — so they cannot score this step",
+        "read the relative date in the switched locale on the Studio Data pillar's records grid (/_console/studio/<package>/data, an object's records). In a grid column a `date` field that declares no format paints the absolute face (10月28日 / Oct 28) and carries the relative phrase as the cell's title, its tooltip (6天前 / 6 days ago): the #25884 ruling, absolute in a sortable column and relative at most as a tooltip (DateCellRenderer and its inGridColumn prop, ui/packages/fields/src/index.tsx). Pick a record whose date is within the last 7 days: outside that window the relative phrase is the absolute face, and the title falls back to the ISO instant. Screenshot the grid, then read the cell's title attribute. The metadata list and history surfaces show none — history renders absolute timestamps — so they cannot score this step",
         "reload the browser fully and re-screenshot one Studio surface — the locale choice must survive the reload",
         "switch back to en through the same avatar-menu language switcher and re-screenshot the same two Studio surfaces"
       ],
@@ -128,16 +128,16 @@
           "evidence": "object-editor screenshot"
         },
         {
-          "clause": "no mixed-language session in the sense the coverage ratchet defines: every string the bundle DOES translate renders translated, and any string it does not renders its EN SOURCE label — never a raw dotted key. The showcase's frozen untranslated debt is legitimate here, not a FAIL",
+          "clause": "no mixed-language session in the sense the coverage ratchet defines: every string the bundle DOES translate renders translated, and any string it does not renders its EN SOURCE label — never a raw dotted key. The showcase's frozen untranslated debt is legitimate here, not a FAIL. So is a label authored over the packaged one, a code-shipped objectExtensions scalar or a tenant's rename: it is served as authored in every locale (ADR-0029 D9.2a, an explicit override beats a packaged default)",
           "oracle": "screenshot",
-          "verify": "review each captured Studio screenshot in two passes: (a) no dotted key path anywhere — that is an unconditional FAIL; (b) every residual English string sitting next to Chinese ones is checked against the frozen debt ratcheted by scripts/check-i18n-coverage.mjs + scripts/i18n-coverage-baseline.json — a string inside that debt is expected and ticks, a string the bundle DOES translate rendering English is the FAIL. User data (record values) is exempt",
+          "verify": "review each captured Studio screenshot in two passes: (a) no dotted key path anywhere — that is an unconditional FAIL; (b) every residual English string sitting next to Chinese ones is checked against the frozen debt ratcheted by scripts/check-i18n-coverage.mjs + scripts/i18n-coverage-baseline.json — a string inside that debt is expected and ticks, a string the bundle DOES translate rendering English is the FAIL. An authored override ticks too: a code extension under examples/app-showcase/src/data/extensions/ or a runtime save of the object declares it, and GET /api/v1/meta/object/OBJ with Accept-Language zh-CN answers it for the scalars it overrides only (translateObject, packages/spec/src/system/i18n-resolver.ts; the showcase's Account (Success Overlay) beside pluralLabel 客户, account.extension.ts, QA run #29672). User data (record values) is exempt",
           "evidence": "the annotated screenshots + the coverage-baseline reading each residual English string was judged against"
         },
         {
-          "clause": "relative dates follow the locale",
-          "oracle": "screenshot",
-          "verify": "the Studio Data pillar's records-grid timestamps render zh-CN relative forms (e.g. 6天前) after the switch, and English relative forms after the switch back; the metadata list / history surfaces carry absolute timestamps and are not this clause's subject",
-          "evidence": "screenshot"
+          "clause": "relative dates follow the locale: in a records grid the relative phrase is the date cell's tooltip, and it renders in the switched locale",
+          "oracle": "dom",
+          "verify": "after a screenshot confirms the Studio Data pillar's records grid settled, the date cell's title attribute reads a zh-CN relative form (e.g. 6天前) after the switch and the English form (6 days ago) after the switch back, while its painted absolute face follows the locale too (10月28日 / Oct 28); the metadata list / history surfaces carry absolute timestamps and are not this clause's subject",
+          "evidence": "the grid screenshots and the title-attribute reads, in both locales"
         },
         {
           "clause": "the locale choice persists across a full reload — it is stored, not a transient client state",
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@
         }
       ],
       "negative": [
-        "a Studio surface staying English after the app switched (mixed session) is the FAIL this item exists for — judged against the bundle, not by counting English words: a string the bundle feeding that surface translates (the console's metadata-admin catalogue for the Studio designers, the app's bundle for app labels such as navigation) rendering English is the FAIL; a string inside the frozen coverage debt rendering its EN source label is not. Check against a fresh objectui build before filing either way (the vendored /_console bundle may be stale)"
+        "a Studio surface staying English after the app switched (mixed session) is the FAIL this item exists for — judged against the bundle, not by counting English words: a string the bundle feeding that surface translates (the console's metadata-admin catalogue for the Studio designers, the app's bundle for app labels such as navigation) rendering English is the FAIL; a string inside the frozen coverage debt rendering its EN source label is not, and neither is a label authored over the packaged one (a code extension scalar or a tenant rename, acceptance[1]), which is served as authored in every locale. Check against a fresh objectui build before filing either way (the vendored /_console bundle may be stale)"
       ],
       "traps": ["stale-console-bundle"],
       "source": [
@@ -172,7 +172,8 @@
         { "revision": 4, "date": "2026-10-05", "change": "the switch steps now name HOW to switch: through the avatar-menu language switcher, which writes the user's locale. Seeding browser storage alone is not a language switch. The 17.7 console run held a relative-date FAIL on this item, and its re-run on #21782 settled it as a harness gap: the first lane had set the UI language only in browser storage, so the user's stored locale stayed empty and dates followed the browser. Through the switcher the clause passed, so the clauses themselves are unchanged (card #21851 entry 11, filed with the follow-up run #21845)", "ref": "#21782" },
         { "revision": 5, "date": "2026-10-13", "change": "steps[3] and acceptance[2].verify re-pointed to the surface that renders relative dates (stale step, #23163 A2; parked on #23121, carried by #23169). The metadata list and history surfaces carry no relative dates — history is absolute — so the step pointed at nothing scorable. QA run #23163 read relative dates (6天前) on the Studio Data pillar's records grid under zh-CN, through the avatar-menu switcher, and passed", "ref": "#23169" },
         { "revision": 6, "date": "2026-10-16", "change": "knownGaps[0], fixtures.requires[0], steps[2], acceptance[0] (clause, verify), negative[0] and source re-pointed (checklist-accuracy notes 2 and 3 of QA run #23951, wave #23878). The clause-0 premise was wrong: the Studio object editor's strings come from objectui's metadata-admin catalogue (designer.object.* in packages/app-shell/src/views/metadata-admin/i18n.ts, ObjectDefaultInspector.tsx), not the served metadataForms group — #23951 read 标识、显示名与分类 / 显示名 where the group carries …分类标签 / 显示名称 — so the clause passed on its verify text while naming the wrong source, and negative[0] judged residual English against the wrong bundle. Both now name the catalogue that feeds the surface. The frozen debt count is 414, not 451 (scripts/i18n-coverage-baseline.json). Not loosened: a zh session still FAILS on any English string the feeding bundle translates, and on any raw dotted key", "ref": "#24036" },
-        { "revision": 7, "date": "2026-10-26", "change": "steps[2] names the metadata-admin catalogue at its path under ui/ instead of 'at the .objectui-sha pin': the objectui pin is retired and the console builds from this tree (pnpm console:build). Wording only, left to this file's card by #26035; the catalogue still carries 基础信息 / 标识、显示名与分类", "ref": "#25842" }
+        { "revision": 7, "date": "2026-10-26", "change": "steps[2] names the metadata-admin catalogue at its path under ui/ instead of 'at the .objectui-sha pin': the objectui pin is retired and the console builds from this tree (pnpm console:build). Wording only, left to this file's card by #26035; the catalogue still carries 基础信息 / 标识、显示名与分类", "ref": "#25842" },
+        { "revision": 8, "date": "2026-11-03", "change": "acceptance[2] (clause, oracle, verify, evidence) and steps[3] read the relative date where it is drawn now, and acceptance[1] and negative[0] carry the authored-override exception. Relative dates: the #25884 ruling paints the absolute face in a grid column and the relative phrase as the cell's tooltip (DateCellRenderer, inGridColumn, ui/packages/fields/src/index.tsx), so QA run #29672 read 10月28日 painted with title 6天前 (en: Oct 28, 6 days ago) and scored the clause FAIL as stale spec; the card names it acceptance[3], the run's one-based number. The clause now reads the tooltip, as a dom read of the title attribute, in both directions; the locale-following phrase it asks for is unchanged. Mixed language (the addendum, 6593917345, from #29675 closed not planned): the run counted Account (Success Overlay) on a zh-CN Studio as a fail, but it is the showcase's code-shipped objectExtensions label (examples/app-showcase/src/data/extensions/account.extension.ts), and ADR-0029 D9.2a makes an explicit override beat the packaged catalog in every locale (translateObject; the i18n-resolver.test.ts case \"a code-shipped extension's scalars beat the catalog\", and packages/rest/src/meta-object-i18n-explicit-override.test.ts). A bundle-translated string drawn English with no override is still the FAIL. Read at base 339f63da30. Card #29679, from QA run #29672", "ref": "#29679" }
       ]
     },
     {