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+//! Gated integration test: the GER40 archive timestamps are **genuine UTC**, so
+//! the Frankfurt session aligns **DST-correctly end-to-end** (raw archive →
+//! `unix_ms_to_epoch_ns` → the `Session` node's Berlin conversion).
+//!
+//! Why this needs pinning: `data-server` applies **no timezone math** — its
+//! `delphi_to_unix_ms` is pure arithmetic (Delphi `TDateTime` → Unix-ms, no
+//! offset, no DST), so the archive carries whatever the raw Pepperstone files
+//! contain, *labelled* as Unix-ms-UTC. The `Session` node's UTC→Berlin DST math
+//! is unit-tested in isolation, but the assumption that the raw timestamps are
+//! UTC was otherwise unverified — a broker-local (e.g. EET) archive would shift
+//! the whole session and the error would jump across the DST boundary.
+//!
+//! Decisive market signal (the DAX cash open at 09:00 Frankfurt is the morning's
+//! sharp **volume** spike): in genuine-UTC data that spike renders at **Berlin
+//! 09:00 in BOTH seasons**, and the same instant is **07:00 UTC** (summer, CEST,
+//! UTC+2) / **08:00 UTC** (winter, CET, UTC+1) — a clean +1h DST shift. A
+//! fixed-offset / broker-local archive would put the spike at the wrong Berlin
+//! hour or fail to shift across DST.
+//!
+//! Mirrors `real_bars.rs`: skips with a note where the local Pepperstone archive
+//! is absent, so `cargo test --workspace` stays green anywhere.
+
+use std::sync::Arc;
+
+use aura_ingest::load_m1_window;
+use chrono::{TimeZone, Timelike};
+use chrono_tz::Europe::Berlin;
+use data_server::{DataServer, DEFAULT_DATA_PATH};
+
+/// For one UTC calendar day of GER40, return `(morning-peak Berlin hour over
+/// 06..=11, the UTC hour that the Berlin-09:00 hour maps to)`. The morning volume
+/// peak is the DAX cash open; in genuine-UTC data it sits at Berlin 09:00 and the
+/// same instant is 07:00 UTC (CEST) / 08:00 UTC (CET).
+fn morning_open(server: &Arc<DataServer>, y: i32, m: u32, d: u32) -> (u32, u32) {
+    let from = chrono::Utc.with_ymd_and_hms(y, m, d, 0, 0, 0).unwrap().timestamp_millis();
+    let to = from + 24 * 3600 * 1000 - 1;
+    let cols = load_m1_window(server, "GER40", Some(from), Some(to))
+        .expect("GER40 has data on this day");
+
+    let mut vol_by_berlin_hour = [0i64; 24];
+    let mut utc_hour_of_berlin_9: Option<u32> = None;
+    for i in 0..cols.ts.len() {
+        let ns = cols.ts[i].0;
+        let berlin_hour = Berlin.timestamp_nanos(ns).hour();
+        vol_by_berlin_hour[berlin_hour as usize] += cols.volume[i];
+        if berlin_hour == 9 && utc_hour_of_berlin_9.is_none() {
+            utc_hour_of_berlin_9 = Some(chrono::Utc.timestamp_nanos(ns).hour());
+        }
+    }
+    let morning_peak = (6u32..=11)
+        .max_by_key(|&h| vol_by_berlin_hour[h as usize])
+        .unwrap();
+    (morning_peak, utc_hour_of_berlin_9.expect("bars exist in the Berlin 09:00 hour"))
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn ger40_archive_is_utc_and_session_is_dst_correct() {
+    let server = Arc::new(DataServer::new(DEFAULT_DATA_PATH));
+    if !server.has_symbol("GER40") {
+        eprintln!("skip: no local data at {DEFAULT_DATA_PATH} (symbol GER40 absent)");
+        return; // hermetic elsewhere; exercises the real archive where files exist
+    }
+
+    // Two normal trading Mondays, one each side of the EU DST boundary.
+    let (summer_peak, summer_utc) = morning_open(&server, 2024, 7, 15);
+    let (winter_peak, winter_utc) = morning_open(&server, 2024, 1, 15);
+
+    // The morning volume peak is the DAX cash open, at Berlin 09:00 in BOTH
+    // seasons — the data, rendered local, places the open at the right wall-clock.
+    assert_eq!(summer_peak, 9, "summer: morning volume must peak at the Berlin 09:00 cash open");
+    assert_eq!(winter_peak, 9, "winter: morning volume must peak at the Berlin 09:00 cash open");
+
+    // ...and Berlin 09:00 is the DST-correct UTC instant: 07:00 (CEST, UTC+2) in
+    // summer, 08:00 (CET, UTC+1) in winter. The shift is the genuine-UTC
+    // signature (a fixed-offset / broker-local archive would not shift).
+    assert_eq!(summer_utc, 7, "summer: Berlin 09:00 must be 07:00 UTC (CEST, UTC+2)");
+    assert_eq!(winter_utc, 8, "winter: Berlin 09:00 must be 08:00 UTC (CET, UTC+1)");
+    assert_ne!(
+        summer_utc, winter_utc,
+        "the open's UTC instant must shift across DST — proof the archive is genuine UTC",
+    );
+}