fix(github): accept provider timestamp offsets

[imshashank]

Summary

Production verification after #383 found GitHub status deliveries using RFC3339 timestamps ending in +00:00. The new check-event parser rejected those valid timestamps and quarantined their deliveries.

Accept explicit timezone offsets and normalize them to UTC before downstream ordering. Preserve rejection of malformed and timezone-free values.

Verification

• Added a regression test and observed it fail before the fix.
• Targeted GitHub parser suite: 27 passing tests.
• Full isolated verification in progress; services suite passed 849 tests.

Deployment

No database migration is required. Deploy this fix before completing the notification rollout. Existing quarantined deliveries remain preserved; recovery still needs verification.

Greptile Summary

The PR allows GitHub check-event timestamps with explicit RFC3339 offsets and normalizes accepted values to canonical UTC strings.

• Enables offset-aware validation for nullable provider timestamps.
• Preserves rejection of malformed and timezone-free timestamps.
• Adds regression coverage for equivalent UTC, positive-offset, and negative-offset instants.

Confidence Score: 5/5

The PR appears safe to merge with no actionable correctness, security, or quality issues identified.

The offset-aware schema remains strict about calendar and timezone validity, while UTC normalization matches downstream parsing and ordering expectations and is covered by focused regression tests.

Important Files Changed

Filename	Overview
packages/services/src/github/index.ts	Broadens provider timestamp validation to explicit offsets and canonicalizes valid timestamps to UTC without exposing an identified failure.
packages/services/tests/github/github.test.ts	Adds focused coverage for valid timezone offsets, malformed values, timezone-free values, and invalid offset ranges.

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

GitHub provider timestamps now accept timezone offsets and normalize valid values to ISO timestamps. Tests verify equivalent UTC results and reject malformed, timezone-free, and invalid-offset values.

Changes

GitHub timestamp normalization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Timestamp schema and validation packages/services/src/github/index.ts, packages/services/tests/github/github.test.ts	nullableProviderTimestampSchema normalizes valid offset-aware datetimes. Tests cover equivalent UTC timestamps and invalid_payload failures for invalid values.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 22d49

GitHub timestamps with timezone offsets are normalized to UTC, but offset timestamps that omit seconds can still be accepted. Require seconds to preserve the intended RFC3339 input contract before merge.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: accepting provider timestamp offsets for GitHub events.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the timestamp parsing fix, validation behavior, tests, deployment impact, and recovery considerations.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 2…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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In `@packages/services/src/github/index.ts`:
- Line 376: Update the datetime schema at the visible .datetime({ offset: true
}) call to require RFC3339 seconds explicitly using the appropriate precision
setting, while preserving offset support. Add a regression test asserting that a
timestamp such as 2026-09-08T11:17+05:30 is rejected.

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[imshashank]

Final review complete for 22d4900. Branch includes latest main. All GitHub CI checks, both end-to-end suites, security scans, Greptile review and Vercel preview passed. No unresolved review threads. Targeted regression suite: 27 passing tests. Local full verify passed lint, policy checks, types and backend suites, then hit the existing Bun SIGTRAP at the analytics line-plot suite; isolated line-plot rerun passed all 16 tests and 77 assertions. CI full suite is green. No schema changes are required by this hotfix. Production provider delivery remains paused separately until the historical notification backfill is verified.