diff --git a/.changeset/platform-iana-timezone-columns.md b/.changeset/platform-iana-timezone-columns.md
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--- a/.changeset/platform-iana-timezone-columns.md
+++ b/.changeset/platform-iana-timezone-columns.md
@@ -4,7 +4,50 @@
 
 feat(platform-objects): `sys_job.timezone` and `sys_report_schedule.timezone` are validated against the IANA domain (#15872)
 
-<!-- adr-0087: not-required (no-migration-prescription) A NON-BREAKING ADDITION of one field property to two existing columns. `valueDomain` is the `min`/`max`/`maxLength` transition-gate class: only a WRITTEN value is judged, a stored value outside a domain declared later is never re-read and survives unrelated edits, so `objectstack migrate meta` has nothing to rewrite. No metadata key, export, config field or stored shape is renamed, retired, re-typed or tombstoned; no column is added, dropped or re-bounded (`maxLength` is unchanged on both, deliberately), so boot schema-sync plans no DDL either. MIGRATION NOTE, stated rather than assumed: a deployment that already stored a non-IANA string in either column keeps it and reads it back unchanged; what changes is that the next WRITE of such a value is refused with the ADR-0114 field error code `value_domain`. For `sys_report_schedule` that refusal is the point — see the behaviour note below. -->
+**BREAKING** accept-set narrowing on two published columns, shipped as `minor`
+under the repo's launch-window convention for breaking changes. Both columns now
+declare `valueDomain: 'iana_time_zone'`, so a value the shipped build stored
+without complaint is refused from this release on. During the launch window the
+bump level is not the carrier of breaking-ness and says nothing about whether a
+release breaks you; this banner is the carrier, and the ADR-0087 disposition at
+the foot of this changeset is the other one.
+
+**What stops being accepted.** A write to either column is now refused with the
+ADR-0114 field error code `value_domain` unless the value is a member of the
+IANA/tzdb set, tested with the `Intl.DateTimeFormat` probe. Three classes of
+string that the previous build accepted are outside that set:
+
+- **UTC-offset spellings** — `UTC+8`, `GMT+0800`, `+08:00`. They name an offset,
+  not a zone, and no offset spelling is an IANA identifier. The tzdb's own
+  fixed-offset zones are members and keep working: `Etc/GMT-8` is accepted.
+- **Windows / CLDR display names** — `China Standard Time`,
+  `Pacific Standard Time`. That is the Windows time-zone vocabulary, a different
+  naming scheme from tzdb, and no member of it is a tzdb identifier.
+- **shape-valid identifiers for zones that do not exist** — `Mars/Olympus`. A
+  `Region/City` pattern cannot separate an unassigned identifier from a real
+  one; membership can, which is what the domain is for.
+
+**What keeps working.** Every genuine IANA identifier, including `UTC` — the
+membership predicate is the `Intl.DateTimeFormat` probe, deliberately not the
+`Intl.supportedValuesOf('timeZone')` enumeration, which omits `UTC`. That
+matters here rather than academically: `'UTC'` is `sys_report_schedule.timezone`'s
+own declared default.
+
+**Stored rows are unaffected — only writes are judged.** No upgrade step, no
+backfill, no DDL. In the published words of the contract this declaration is
+governed by (`packages/spec/src/data/field.zod.ts`, the `valueDomain` description):
+
+> Checked on the WRITTEN value only (the `min`/`max`/`maxLength` transition-gate
+> class): a stored value outside a domain declared later is never re-read and
+> survives unrelated edits — only a write carrying a non-member is refused, with
+> the field error code `value_domain`.
+
+So a deployment already holding `UTC+8` in one of these columns keeps it and
+reads it back unchanged; what changes is the next write. The one thing to know
+before upgrading is therefore an authoring fact, not a data-at-rest one: a
+producer that writes one of the three spellings above starts getting a refusal
+where it previously got a success, and for `sys_report_schedule` that refusal is
+the point — see the behaviour note below.
 
 The platform's two oldest IANA time-zone columns predate `valueDomain` and disagreed with each other in three dimensions at once — length (100 vs 64), default (none vs `'UTC'`) and validation (neither). This closes the third: both now declare `valueDomain: 'iana_time_zone'`, the same declaration and the same `Intl.DateTimeFormat` membership probe that `sys_business_unit.timezone` and `sys_organization.timezone` carry (#14238). Four columns, one spelling of "is this a real zone".
 
@@ -17,3 +60,5 @@ The platform's two oldest IANA time-zone columns predate `valueDomain` and disag
 
 - **the defaults still differ.** A default here is a consumer semantic, not a shape question. `sys_report_schedule` documents and implements a UTC default; `sys_job` has no reader at all, and minting one would change what an unset row means.
 - **the bounds still differ (100 vs 64).** `maxLength` is not only a write bound — it reaches DDL, and narrowing a physical `varchar(100)` is `driver-sql`'s `narrow_varchar` op at severity `error`, category destructive ("narrowing may truncate"). What the column physically holds in a deployment is not readable from the repo, so the convergence is a separate decision and #15872 stays open on it. Note what the domain declaration already costs the wider bound: no member is longer than 32 characters on the current Node baseline, so 100 now admits nothing 64 would not.
+
+<!-- adr-0087: not-required (no-migration-prescription) A DECLARED-BREAKING accept-set narrowing on two existing columns that leaves nobody a metadata rewrite to perform. `valueDomain` is the `min`/`max`/`maxLength` transition-gate class: only a WRITTEN value is judged, a stored value outside a domain declared later is never re-read and survives unrelated edits, so `objectstack migrate meta` has nothing to rewrite and there is no tombstone to mint. No metadata key, export, config field or stored shape is renamed, retired, re-typed or tombstoned; no column is added, dropped or re-bounded (`maxLength` is unchanged on both, deliberately), so boot schema-sync plans no DDL either. What an upgrader has to know is a WRITE-PATH fact rather than a stored-shape one, and the body above states it rather than assuming it: a deployment that already stored a non-IANA string in either column keeps it and reads it back unchanged; what changes is that the next WRITE of such a value is refused with the ADR-0114 field error code `value_domain`. The channel that reaches an affected producer is that refusal, at its own write, which is more precise than a ledger line the producer never reads. -->