diff --git a/src/lib/server/order-quote-match.test.ts b/src/lib/server/order-quote-match.test.ts
index c77de0f..66de9fc 100644
--- a/src/lib/server/order-quote-match.test.ts
+++ b/src/lib/server/order-quote-match.test.ts
@@ -512,6 +512,12 @@ describe("quoteWindowForOrder", () => {
   it("throws on an unparseable order date rather than silently matching everything", () => {
     expect(() => quoteWindowForOrder("not-a-date", 90)).toThrow(/unparseable/i);
   });
+
+  it("accepts PocketBase's space-separated datetime form identically to the ISO T form", () => {
+    const iso = quoteWindowForOrder(ORDER_DATE, 90);
+    const pbForm = quoteWindowForOrder("2026-08-29 10:00:00.000Z", 90);
+    expect(pbForm).toEqual(iso);
+  });
 });
 
 describe("quoteToOrderAgeDays", () => {
@@ -539,4 +545,29 @@ describe("quoteToOrderAgeDays", () => {
     expect(quoteToOrderAgeDays("2026-08-29T10:00:00.000Z", "not-a-date")).toBe(0);
     expect(Number.isNaN(quoteToOrderAgeDays("garbage", "also-garbage"))).toBe(false);
   });
+
+  it("returns a clean 0, not -0, when the quote lands exactly half a day after the order", () => {
+    // Quote created 12h after the order → (order - quote) = -0.5 days.
+    // Math.round(-0.5) is -0 in JS; the function must normalize that.
+    const days = quoteToOrderAgeDays(
+      "2026-08-29T22:00:00.000Z",
+      "2026-08-29T10:00:00.000Z",
+    );
+    expect(days).toBe(0);
+    expect(Object.is(days, -0)).toBe(false);
+    expect(Object.is(days, 0)).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it("accepts PocketBase's space-separated datetime form identically to the ISO T form", () => {
+    const iso = quoteToOrderAgeDays(
+      "2026-06-01T10:00:00.000Z",
+      "2026-08-29T10:00:00.000Z",
+    );
+    const pbForm = quoteToOrderAgeDays(
+      "2026-06-01 10:00:00.000Z",
+      "2026-08-29 10:00:00.000Z",
+    );
+    expect(pbForm).toBe(iso);
+    expect(pbForm).toBe(89);
+  });
 });
diff --git a/src/lib/server/order-quote-match.ts b/src/lib/server/order-quote-match.ts
index 7af0813..09f533c 100644
--- a/src/lib/server/order-quote-match.ts
+++ b/src/lib/server/order-quote-match.ts
@@ -456,6 +456,23 @@ export const FUZZY_WINDOW_GRACE_DAYS = 7;
 
 const DAY_MS = 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000;
 
+/**
+ * Parse a datetime string that may be either ISO 8601 (`T` separator,
+ * e.g. `2026-08-29T10:00:00.000Z`) or PocketBase's serialized form
+ * (a SPACE separator, e.g. `2026-08-29 10:00:00.000Z`).
+ *
+ * V8 happens to parse the space-separated form via `new Date(...)`,
+ * but per the ECMAScript spec that's implementation-defined — other
+ * engines are free to reject it. Every date this matcher touches
+ * ultimately comes from a PB `created` field, so we normalize the
+ * separator explicitly here rather than relying on engine leniency.
+ */
+function parseFlexibleDate(value: string): Date {
+  const normalized =
+    /^\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2} \d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}/.test(value) ? value.replace(" ", "T") : value;
+  return new Date(normalized);
+}
+
 export interface QuoteWindow {
   /** Inclusive lower bound, ISO 8601. */
   from: string;
@@ -468,7 +485,7 @@ export function quoteWindowForOrder(
   orderCreated: string,
   days: number,
 ): QuoteWindow {
-  const anchor = new Date(orderCreated);
+  const anchor = parseFlexibleDate(orderCreated);
   if (Number.isNaN(anchor.getTime())) {
     throw new Error(
       `quoteWindowForOrder: unparseable order date ${JSON.stringify(orderCreated)}`,
@@ -482,13 +499,19 @@ export function quoteWindowForOrder(
 
 /** Whole days between a quote's creation and an order's creation.
  *  Positive means the quote came first (the normal case). Used by the
- *  sweep's age-gap histogram. */
+ *  sweep's age-gap histogram.
+ *
+ *  `Math.round` ties toward +Infinity, so a negative half-day gap
+ *  (e.g. -0.5) rounds to `-0`. `-0 === 0` is true and it stringifies
+ *  as `"0"` almost everywhere, but it's still a footgun (e.g.
+ *  `Object.is`, `1 / days`) — normalize it to a clean `0`. */
 export function quoteToOrderAgeDays(
   quoteCreated: string,
   orderCreated: string,
 ): number {
-  const q = new Date(quoteCreated).getTime();
-  const o = new Date(orderCreated).getTime();
+  const q = parseFlexibleDate(quoteCreated).getTime();
+  const o = parseFlexibleDate(orderCreated).getTime();
   if (Number.isNaN(q) || Number.isNaN(o)) return 0;
-  return Math.round((o - q) / DAY_MS);
+  const days = Math.round((o - q) / DAY_MS);
+  return days === 0 ? 0 : days;
 }