Give each General Conference talk its own chronological pubDate

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Problem

Every talk in a General Conference got the same pubDate (the 1st of the conference month, UTC), because extractPublicationDate collapsed the per-talk Estimated publish: … timestamp to the conference month. Podcast apps sort by pubDate, so talks inside a conference showed up in arbitrary order (and Oct conferences showed as "Sept 30" in Mountain time). The live all-conference feed had 1,582 items but only 60 distinct pubDates.

Change

• Read the naive Estimated publish wall-clock time as Mountain time (America/Denver, Salt Lake City, DST-aware via Intl) and use it as the talk's pubDate. Explicit Z/offset timestamps are honored.
• Bump the media metadata cache version (5 → 6) so cached publication dates are re-extracted after deploy.
• Update tests: per-talk timestamps, Mountain-time conversion across DST (including pre-2007 DST rules), and the desc:pubDate,path directory feed order (now strictly reverse-chronological, conferences still grouped).

Explicit ID3 full dates (TDRL/TDRC/TXXX) still take precedence; path-based month fallback remains for files without an estimate.

Verification

npm run validate passes locally (296 tests). Simulating against the live all-conference feed: 1,549 distinct pubDates for 1,582 items (remaining collisions are source-data issues in 2014–2017 women's/priesthood sessions and 12 talks without descriptions, being fixed via metadata edits), and all 42 conferences remain contiguous.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Publication dates now reflect each talk’s estimated date and time, rather than defaulting to the first day of the conference month.
  • Times without a timezone are interpreted as Mountain time, including daylight-saving adjustments; timestamps with an explicit timezone retain their specified time.
  • Talks within a conference are now ordered newest to oldest by their individual publication timestamps.

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Estimated publication dates now retain each talk’s timestamp. Timezone-naive values are interpreted in Mountain time with daylight-saving adjustments. The media cache version increases from 5 to 6.

Changes: Estimated publication timestamps

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Timestamp parsing and ordering app/helpers/media.ts, app/helpers/media.test.ts, app/helpers/sort.test.ts	The media helper converts timezone-naive estimated timestamps from Mountain time and preserves the parsed instant instead of reducing it to the conference month’s first day. The cache version increases to 6. Tests cover daylight-saving conversion, explicit UTC timestamps, and newest-first talk ordering.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: kentcdodds

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to f0f87

Some talks can receive slightly imprecise or incorrect publication dates. The issues are bounded, but correcting the parser before merging would protect feed ordering.

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Review comments at @app/helpers/media.ts:
- Line 392: Update the timestamp parsing around the naive destructuring to
capture fractional seconds and add the fraction to the converted instant,
preserving milliseconds in estimated publication dates. Add a test for the
`2026-04-04T10:00:00.500` input.
- Line 404: Validate the parsed wall-clock calendar and time components before
converting them with Date.UTC; reject out-of-range values such as month 13 so
they return null and allow the path fallback, rather than accepting Date.UTC’s
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