diff --git a/Strand/BLE/BLEManager.swift b/Strand/BLE/BLEManager.swift
index 296ba8b73..2c3dd0053 100644
--- a/Strand/BLE/BLEManager.swift
+++ b/Strand/BLE/BLEManager.swift
@@ -1625,6 +1625,15 @@ public final class BLEManager: NSObject, ObservableObject {
         if let bf = backfiller,
            let summary = Backfiller.sessionSummaryLine(rows: bf.sessionRowsPersisted, motion: bf.sessionMotionRows, skinTemp: bf.sessionSkinTempRows, nights: bf.sessionNights) {
             log(summary)
+            // #67: WHERE the rows landed + WHY (the clock ref that decoded them). A reset-RTC strap banks
+            // last night into the past; this line makes the misdating self-evident in the strap log instead
+            // of leaving "persisted N rows across 1 night(s)" looking like a clean sync.
+            if let diag = Backfiller.sessionClockDiagLine(nightKeys: bf.sessionNightKeys,
+                                                          device: bf.sessionClockDevice,
+                                                          wall: bf.sessionClockWall,
+                                                          usedIdentityRef: bf.sessionUsedIdentityRef) {
+                log(diag)
+            }
         }
         // Connection test mode: the offload OUTCOME the readout's lastOffloadResult id binds. Gated
         // zero-cost (the .connection bool is read before any string is built). Diagnostic only - it reads
diff --git a/Strand/Collect/Backfiller.swift b/Strand/Collect/Backfiller.swift
index 1c801736e..f46daf977 100644
--- a/Strand/Collect/Backfiller.swift
+++ b/Strand/Collect/Backfiller.swift
@@ -104,8 +104,19 @@ final class Backfiller {
     /// ONLY in its full DSP sleep records; a strap banking HR/RR-only records reports 0 here even on a
     /// healthy-looking sync, so surfacing it makes "skin temp never appears" reports self-diagnosing.
     private(set) var sessionSkinTempRows = 0
-    private var sessionNightKeys: Set<Int> = []
+    private(set) var sessionNightKeys: Set<Int> = []
     var sessionNights: Int { sessionNightKeys.count }
+
+    /// #67 diag: the clock reference the offload ACTUALLY decoded with, captured on the first chunk of the
+    /// session. Surfaces whether the stale-RTC timestamp correction (FIX #72's `correctedWall`) could even
+    /// engage. `sessionUsedIdentityRef` = GET_CLOCK never correlated, so decode fell back to an identity
+    /// ref (device==wall==now) → clock offset 0 → correction OFF. On a strap whose RTC has reset, that
+    /// silently stores the strap's stale (years-old) timestamps verbatim, so the night lands off the recent
+    /// timeline and reads as "missed sleep". Paired with the persisted-nights DATE RANGE below, one strap
+    /// log now shows both WHERE the rows landed and WHY. Reset in begin(). Log-only.
+    private(set) var sessionClockDevice: Int?
+    private(set) var sessionClockWall: Int?
+    private(set) var sessionUsedIdentityRef = false
     /// Logged once per session when the strap reports trim=0xFFFFFFFF — the "no valid flash cursor"
     /// sentinel: it has no banked history to offload (a clock/charge state, not a decode bug).
     private var loggedNoCursor = false
@@ -207,6 +218,9 @@ final class Backfiller {
         sessionMotionRows = 0
         sessionSkinTempRows = 0
         sessionNightKeys.removeAll(keepingCapacity: true)
+        sessionClockDevice = nil          // #67: re-capture the decode clock ref for this session
+        sessionClockWall = nil
+        sessionUsedIdentityRef = false
         loggedNoCursor = false
         loggedFutureRtc = false
         sessionDroppedImplausible = 0
@@ -271,6 +285,37 @@ final class Backfiller {
         return "Backfill: session persisted \(rows) rows (\(motion) with motion, \(skinTemp) skin-temp) across \(nights) night(s)."
     }
 
+    /// #67 diag: the persisted-nights DATE RANGE plus the offload's effective clock state — the two facts
+    /// the summary above omits. `nightKeys` are UTC day-keys (ts / 86400); their min/max are the day(s) the
+    /// rows LANDED on. When those days sit years in the past while the clock ref reads ~now (an identity
+    /// fallback, or an in-sync ref on a strap that banked stale), the night is misdated off the recent
+    /// timeline — the "missed sleep" signature (#67). Returns nil when nothing landed. Log-only, pure.
+    nonisolated static func sessionClockDiagLine(nightKeys: Set<Int>,
+                                                 device: Int?, wall: Int?, usedIdentityRef: Bool) -> String? {
+        guard let lo = nightKeys.min(), let hi = nightKeys.max() else { return nil }
+        let day: (Int) -> String = { key in
+            let f = DateFormatter()
+            f.locale = Locale(identifier: "en_US_POSIX")   // fixed Gregorian yyyy — not the device calendar
+            f.dateFormat = "yyyy-MM-dd"
+            f.timeZone = TimeZone(identifier: "UTC")
+            return f.string(from: Date(timeIntervalSince1970: Double(key) * 86_400))
+        }
+        let range = lo == hi ? day(lo) : "\(day(lo))…\(day(hi))"
+        var line = "Backfill: rows landed on \(range)"
+        if let device, let wall {
+            let offset = wall - device
+            let days = offset / 86_400
+            if usedIdentityRef {
+                line += " · clock ref: IDENTITY fallback (GET_CLOCK never correlated) - stale-record correction OFF"
+            } else if abs(offset) > 86_400 {
+                line += " · strap clock \(days >= 0 ? "\(days)d behind" : "\(-days)d ahead") wall - correction engaged"
+            } else {
+                line += " · clock ref in sync"
+            }
+        }
+        return line
+    }
+
     /// The trim=0xFFFFFFFF sentinel line (#783). 0xFFFFFFFF means two different things depending on whether
     /// THIS run already banked rows. On the first end of a fresh offload it's the "no valid flash cursor"
     /// state (no banked history, a clock/charge problem). But the #364 auto-continuation re-kicks
@@ -355,6 +400,13 @@ final class Backfiller {
             // decodes to correct wall time, and we can persist + ack + upload. The correlation is only
             // truly required to map REALTIME (type-40/43) device-epoch timestamps, never in a hist chunk.
             let ref = clockRef ?? { let now = Int(Date().timeIntervalSince1970); return ClockRef(device: now, wall: now) }()
+            // #67 diag: remember the ref (and whether it was the identity fallback) for the session summary,
+            // so a strap log shows whether stale-RTC correction could engage. Captured on the first chunk.
+            if sessionClockDevice == nil {
+                sessionClockDevice = ref.device
+                sessionClockWall = ref.wall
+                sessionUsedIdentityRef = (clockRef == nil)
+            }
             // PERF (2026-07-03): the heavy decode — parseFrame ×N, extractHistoricalStreams, and the
             // reject-classifier's SECOND full parse — runs OFF the main actor so a long history offload no
             // longer freezes the UI (was ~54K parseFrame calls on main for a 27K-row import). Pure functions
diff --git a/Strand/System/DebugDataDiagnostics.swift b/Strand/System/DebugDataDiagnostics.swift
index 8f3c44fc0..3a1f98739 100644
--- a/Strand/System/DebugDataDiagnostics.swift
+++ b/Strand/System/DebugDataDiagnostics.swift
@@ -197,14 +197,15 @@ enum DebugDataDiagnostics {
         } else {
             lines.append("Model: \(model)")
         }
-        // #4: strap clock health — a reset/stale OR future-dated clock (the #34 / #928 causes) breaks the
-        // alarm even when armed.
+        // #4 / #67: strap clock health — a reset/stale OR future-dated clock (the #34 / #928 causes) breaks
+        // the alarm even when armed, AND misdates offloaded sleep: the strap banks last night with its wrong
+        // RTC, so the night lands on the stale date and reads as "missed sleep" on the recent timeline (#67).
         if let newest = d.object(forKey: "strap.newestRecordTs") as? Int, newest > 0 {
             let behind = Int(Date().timeIntervalSince1970) - newest
             if behind > 3 * 86400 {
-                lines.append("Strap clock: \(behind / 86400)d behind wall (reset/stale — alarm unreliable)")
+                lines.append("Strap clock: \(behind / 86400)d behind wall (reset/stale — alarm unreliable; recent sleep may be filed ~\(behind / 86400)d in the past, #67)")
             } else if behind < -3 * 86400 {
-                lines.append("Strap clock: \(-behind / 86400)d AHEAD of wall (future-dated — alarm unreliable)")
+                lines.append("Strap clock: \(-behind / 86400)d AHEAD of wall (future-dated — alarm unreliable; recent sleep may be misdated, #67)")
             } else {
                 lines.append("Strap clock: OK")
             }
diff --git a/StrandTests/BackfillerSessionTallyTests.swift b/StrandTests/BackfillerSessionTallyTests.swift
index 68a967397..3b04dc1f8 100644
--- a/StrandTests/BackfillerSessionTallyTests.swift
+++ b/StrandTests/BackfillerSessionTallyTests.swift
@@ -50,6 +50,58 @@ final class BackfillerSessionTallyTests: XCTestCase {
             "Backfill: session persisted 872 rows (172 with motion, 0 skin-temp) across 1 night(s).")
     }
 
+    // MARK: - #67 offload clock-diagnostic line (WHERE rows landed + WHY)
+
+    // No nights persisted → no line (nothing to date).
+    func testClockDiagNilWhenNoNights() {
+        XCTAssertNil(Backfiller.sessionClockDiagLine(nightKeys: [], device: 1_700_000_000, wall: 1_700_000_000, usedIdentityRef: false))
+    }
+
+    // The #67 signature: rows landed years in the past AND the offload used the identity fallback (no
+    // GET_CLOCK correlation), so the stale-RTC correction never engaged. Day-key formats as a UTC date.
+    func testClockDiagIdentityFallbackShowsPastDateAndCorrectionOff() {
+        let marchDay = 1_711_276_123 / 86_400          // 2024-03-24
+        let line = Backfiller.sessionClockDiagLine(nightKeys: [marchDay],
+                                                   device: 1_783_486_611, wall: 1_783_486_611,
+                                                   usedIdentityRef: true)
+        XCTAssertEqual(line, "Backfill: rows landed on 2024-03-24 · clock ref: IDENTITY fallback (GET_CLOCK never correlated) - stale-record correction OFF")
+    }
+
+    // A genuinely stale-but-correlated ref: the correction IS engaged and the behind-by days are named.
+    func testClockDiagCorrelatedStaleRefReportsCorrectionEngaged() {
+        let day = 1_711_276_123 / 86_400
+        let line = Backfiller.sessionClockDiagLine(nightKeys: [day],
+                                                   device: 1_711_276_123, wall: 1_783_486_123,
+                                                   usedIdentityRef: false)
+        XCTAssertNotNil(line)
+        XCTAssertTrue(line!.contains("835d behind wall - correction engaged"), line ?? "")
+    }
+
+    // A healthy strap: in-sync ref, single night, and the date range collapses to one day.
+    func testClockDiagInSyncSingleDay() {
+        let day = 1_783_400_000 / 86_400
+        let line = Backfiller.sessionClockDiagLine(nightKeys: [day],
+                                                   device: 1_783_400_000, wall: 1_783_400_050,
+                                                   usedIdentityRef: false)
+        XCTAssertTrue(line!.hasSuffix("· clock ref in sync"), line ?? "")
+        XCTAssertFalse(line!.contains("…"))   // one day, not a range
+    }
+
+    // Multi-night chunk shows a lo…hi UTC range.
+    func testClockDiagMultiNightRange() {
+        let d0 = 1_711_276_123 / 86_400
+        let d1 = d0 + 2
+        let line = Backfiller.sessionClockDiagLine(nightKeys: [d0, d1], device: nil, wall: nil, usedIdentityRef: false)
+        XCTAssertTrue(line!.contains("2024-03-24…2024-03-26"), line ?? "")
+    }
+
+    // No em-dash leaks (matches the noCursorLine/futureRtcLine convention).
+    func testClockDiagHasNoEmDash() {
+        let line = Backfiller.sessionClockDiagLine(nightKeys: [1_711_276_123 / 86_400],
+                                                   device: 1_783_486_611, wall: 1_783_486_611, usedIdentityRef: true)
+        XCTAssertFalse(line!.contains("\u{2014}"))
+    }
+
     // #783: trim=0xFFFFFFFF on a fresh run that banked NOTHING means "no banked history": the genuine
     // clock/charge guidance with the "fully charge it" hint.
     func testNoCursorLineNoRowsGivesNoHistoryGuidance() {