diff --git a/hive-agent/src/turn.rs b/hive-agent/src/turn.rs
index f099d7ab..e6ea396c 100644
--- a/hive-agent/src/turn.rs
+++ b/hive-agent/src/turn.rs
@@ -416,7 +416,8 @@ fn maybe_auto_reset(bus: &Bus) {
     if last_ended == 0 {
         return; // no completed turn yet
     }
-    // Compute idle seconds using the same clock as now_unix (unix epoch, i64).
+    // Compute idle seconds using the same clock semantics as elsewhere
+    // in this crate (unix epoch, i64 seconds via `Utc::now().timestamp()`).
     let now = std::time::SystemTime::now()
         .duration_since(std::time::UNIX_EPOCH)
         .map_or(0, |d| d.as_secs());
diff --git a/hive-c0re/src/actions.rs b/hive-c0re/src/actions.rs
index d3eb90c4..207ecf95 100644
--- a/hive-c0re/src/actions.rs
+++ b/hive-c0re/src/actions.rs
@@ -714,7 +714,7 @@ fn finish_approval(
     // Phase 5b: also fire on the dashboard event channel so the
     // browser moves the row out of pending into history without a
     // snapshot refetch. `approved` rows that succeed get the
-    // approval's logged resolved_at indirectly via `now_unix()`;
+    // approval's logged resolved_at indirectly via `Utc::now()`;
     // failures already wrote it via mark_failed above.
     let approval_kind = approval.kind.as_str();
     let sha_short = approval
diff --git a/hive-sh4re/src/wire_time.rs b/hive-sh4re/src/wire_time.rs
index 50850747..661cd78a 100644
--- a/hive-sh4re/src/wire_time.rs
+++ b/hive-sh4re/src/wire_time.rs
@@ -15,17 +15,13 @@ pub fn from_secs(secs: i64) -> DateTime<Utc> {
     DateTime::<Utc>::from_timestamp(secs, 0).unwrap_or_default()
 }
 
-/// Current unix timestamp in seconds — the single definition behind
-/// every store's `created_at` / `sent_at` / … stamp (this module owns
-/// the epoch-seconds convention; a dozen local copies of this fn used
-/// to float around both binaries). Uses chrono's `clock` feature
-/// (already pulled in workspace-wide) instead of hand-rolled
-/// `SystemTime` math, consistent with every other timestamp in this
-/// module being a `chrono` type.
-#[must_use]
-pub fn now_unix() -> i64 {
-    Utc::now().timestamp()
-}
+// `now_unix()` (a hand-rolled-`SystemTime`-math-turned-`chrono` helper
+// that every store used to call for its `created_at` / `sent_at` / …
+// stamps) has been removed — every call site now uses
+// `chrono::Utc::now()` directly, either as a `DateTime<Utc>` struct
+// field or via `.timestamp()` for the ephemeral i64-typed (sqlite
+// bind / cutoff arithmetic) call sites. hivectl's own separate
+// `now_unix()` copy in `dag_progress.rs` is unrelated and untouched.
 
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {