diff --git a/src/lib/medications/compliance-rollups.ts b/src/lib/medications/compliance-rollups.ts
index 9f7287c69..6684c709d 100644
--- a/src/lib/medications/compliance-rollups.ts
+++ b/src/lib/medications/compliance-rollups.ts
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ import {
   isValidTimezone,
   userDayKey,
 } from "@/lib/tz/format";
+import { wallClockInTz } from "@/lib/tz/wall-clock";
 
 /**
  * pg-boss queue name for the boot-time medication compliance backfill.
@@ -65,30 +66,6 @@ export interface ComplianceBucket {
  */
 type PrismaLike = typeof prisma | Prisma.TransactionClient;
 
-/**
- * Compute the wall-clock components of `date` interpreted in `tz`.
- * Same shape as the cadence helper's `wallClockInTz`, lifted here so
- * the compliance module doesn't depend on a sibling-folder helper.
- */
-function wallClockInTz(
-  date: Date,
-  tz: string,
-): { year: number; month: number; day: number } {
-  const parts = new Intl.DateTimeFormat("en-US", {
-    timeZone: tz,
-    year: "numeric",
-    month: "2-digit",
-    day: "2-digit",
-  }).formatToParts(date);
-  const get = (type: Intl.DateTimeFormatPartTypes): string =>
-    parts.find((p) => p.type === type)?.value ?? "0";
-  return {
-    year: Number(get("year")),
-    month: Number(get("month")),
-    day: Number(get("day")),
-  };
-}
-
 /**
  * UTC offset (in minutes) of `tz` at the given instant. Positive east
  * of UTC. Honours DST via `Intl.DateTimeFormat`.
diff --git a/src/lib/medications/scheduling/cadence.ts b/src/lib/medications/scheduling/cadence.ts
index 34683770b..16b2053b3 100644
--- a/src/lib/medications/scheduling/cadence.ts
+++ b/src/lib/medications/scheduling/cadence.ts
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
  */
 
 import { parseScheduleRecurrence } from "@/lib/medication-schedule";
+import { wallClockInTz } from "@/lib/tz/wall-clock";
 
 export interface ScheduleLike {
   /** "HH:mm" 24h, user-tz reference (per existing schema). */
@@ -78,69 +79,9 @@ const WEEK_MS = 7 * DAY_MS;
  */
 const PAIR_RADIUS_MS = 12 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
 
-interface WallClockParts {
-  year: number;
-  month: number; // 1-12
-  day: number;
-  hour: number;
-  minute: number;
-  second: number;
-  weekday: number; // 0 = Sunday
-}
-
-const WEEKDAY_MAP: Record<string, number> = {
-  Sun: 0,
-  Mon: 1,
-  Tue: 2,
-  Wed: 3,
-  Thu: 4,
-  Fri: 5,
-  Sat: 6,
-};
-
-/**
- * Compute the wall-clock parts of `date` interpreted in the user's
- * timezone. When `tz` is omitted, falls back to the system-local
- * representation so the legacy single-tz callers keep their existing
- * shape (the v1.4.25 W19e callers were system-local by construction).
- */
-function wallClockInTz(date: Date, tz: string | undefined): WallClockParts {
-  if (!tz) {
-    return {
-      year: date.getFullYear(),
-      month: date.getMonth() + 1,
-      day: date.getDate(),
-      hour: date.getHours(),
-      minute: date.getMinutes(),
-      second: date.getSeconds(),
-      weekday: date.getDay(),
-    };
-  }
-  const parts = new Intl.DateTimeFormat("en-US", {
-    timeZone: tz,
-    year: "numeric",
-    month: "2-digit",
-    day: "2-digit",
-    hour: "2-digit",
-    minute: "2-digit",
-    second: "2-digit",
-    hour12: false,
-    weekday: "short",
-  }).formatToParts(date);
-  const get = (type: Intl.DateTimeFormatPartTypes): string =>
-    parts.find((p) => p.type === type)?.value ?? "0";
-  let hour = Number(get("hour"));
-  if (hour === 24) hour = 0;
-  return {
-    year: Number(get("year")),
-    month: Number(get("month")),
-    day: Number(get("day")),
-    hour,
-    minute: Number(get("minute")),
-    second: Number(get("second")),
-    weekday: WEEKDAY_MAP[get("weekday")] ?? 0,
-  };
-}
+// WallClockParts + wallClockInTz live in `@/lib/tz/wall-clock` as the
+// canonical helper — see the file-level comment there for the v1.4.40
+// consolidation rationale.
 
 /**
  * Compute the UTC offset (in minutes) of `tz` at the given instant.
diff --git a/src/lib/tz/wall-clock.ts b/src/lib/tz/wall-clock.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4ed3626b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/tz/wall-clock.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+/**
+ * Wall-clock-in-timezone helper shared by the medication scheduling
+ * + compliance-rollup paths.
+ *
+ * Decomposes a `Date` instant into the year/month/day/hour/minute/
+ * second/weekday tuple an observer in `tz` would read off a wall
+ * clock at that moment. Honours DST because `Intl.DateTimeFormat`
+ * does.
+ *
+ * When `tz` is omitted the helper falls back to the host's system-
+ * local representation so the v1.4.25 W19e callers that pre-date the
+ * per-user timezone work keep their original shape.
+ *
+ * v1.4.40 W-GHOSTS consolidated two file-local copies
+ * (`compliance-rollups.ts` returning `{year,month,day}` only +
+ * `scheduling/cadence.ts` returning the full tuple) into this single
+ * canonical export. The cross-tz ±3 h guard hinges on these helpers
+ * staying in lock-step; keeping them as separate definitions made
+ * silent drift a real failure mode.
+ */
+export interface WallClockParts {
+  year: number;
+  /** 1–12 (January = 1, December = 12). */
+  month: number;
+  /** 1–31. */
+  day: number;
+  /** 0–23 (24 normalised to 0 to match Date.getHours() semantics). */
+  hour: number;
+  minute: number;
+  second: number;
+  /** 0 = Sunday … 6 = Saturday. */
+  weekday: number;
+}
+
+const WEEKDAY_MAP: Record<string, number> = {
+  Sun: 0,
+  Mon: 1,
+  Tue: 2,
+  Wed: 3,
+  Thu: 4,
+  Fri: 5,
+  Sat: 6,
+};
+
+export function wallClockInTz(
+  date: Date,
+  tz: string | undefined,
+): WallClockParts {
+  if (!tz) {
+    return {
+      year: date.getFullYear(),
+      month: date.getMonth() + 1,
+      day: date.getDate(),
+      hour: date.getHours(),
+      minute: date.getMinutes(),
+      second: date.getSeconds(),
+      weekday: date.getDay(),
+    };
+  }
+  const parts = new Intl.DateTimeFormat("en-US", {
+    timeZone: tz,
+    year: "numeric",
+    month: "2-digit",
+    day: "2-digit",
+    hour: "2-digit",
+    minute: "2-digit",
+    second: "2-digit",
+    hour12: false,
+    weekday: "short",
+  }).formatToParts(date);
+  const get = (type: Intl.DateTimeFormatPartTypes): string =>
+    parts.find((p) => p.type === type)?.value ?? "0";
+  let hour = Number(get("hour"));
+  if (hour === 24) hour = 0;
+  return {
+    year: Number(get("year")),
+    month: Number(get("month")),
+    day: Number(get("day")),
+    hour,
+    minute: Number(get("minute")),
+    second: Number(get("second")),
+    weekday: WEEKDAY_MAP[get("weekday")] ?? 0,
+  };
+}