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22nd February 2026

Research README Timezone Clarification — Timezone mismatches in the project’s root README.md were identified due to inconsistent git commit author dates—some in UTC, others in US Pacific time—displayed without timezone clarification. The listing was generated by a cog script that extracted dates using `git log`, then formatted them without standardizing to a common timezone, causing confusion across 39 project directories.

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