diff --git a/internal/store/reminders.go b/internal/store/reminders.go
index fefa7bb..f7b67df 100644
--- a/internal/store/reminders.go
+++ b/internal/store/reminders.go
@@ -205,8 +205,30 @@ func (s *Store) ListReminders(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]Reminder, error) {
 
 // RescheduleReminder computes the next fire time for a recurring reminder and
 // updates next_fire_ts. Returns ErrReminderState if the reminder is not
-// recurring or not pending. If no more valid fire times exist, marks it fired.
+// recurring or not pending. If the schedule yields no further fire time at all,
+// marks it fired.
+//
+// Two things the first version got wrong, both fixed 06-08-2026 (V-616).
+//
+// The cron expression is a WALL CLOCK statement — "0 9 * * *" is nine in the
+// morning where the owner stands — but scanReminder hands back instants in UTC,
+// and robfig's Next walks the calendar in the location of the time it is given.
+// Computing from a UTC instant therefore produced the next 09:00 UTC, so the
+// second occurrence of a daily reminder landed one UTC offset late and stayed
+// there: 12:00 for a Moscow owner. Everything is converted to loc first, which
+// also makes the walk DST-correct — the schedule keeps its wall-clock hour
+// across a changeover instead of drifting an hour with the offset.
+//
+// And a missed occurrence used to KILL the reminder: any next fire earlier than
+// now marked it fired, so a daemon down overnight ended a daily standup forever.
+// Occurrences in the past are skipped instead, so the reminder rolls forward to
+// the first one strictly after now. Skipping and not replaying is deliberate:
+// the same no-backlog rule routine.DueAccepted follows.
 func (s *Store) RescheduleReminder(ctx context.Context, id int64, now time.Time) error {
+	return s.rescheduleReminderIn(ctx, id, now, time.Local)
+}
+
+func (s *Store) rescheduleReminderIn(ctx context.Context, id int64, now time.Time, loc *time.Location) error {
 	row := s.db.QueryRowContext(ctx, `
 		SELECT id, created_ts, fire_ts, next_fire_ts, payload, status, cron
 		  FROM reminders WHERE id = ?`, id)
@@ -225,8 +247,14 @@ func (s *Store) RescheduleReminder(ctx context.Context, id int64, now time.Time)
 	if err != nil {
 		return fmt.Errorf("parse cron %q: %w", r.Cron, err)
 	}
-	next := sched.Next(r.NextFireTs.Add(time.Minute))
-	if next.IsZero() || next.Before(now) {
+	// Next is strictly after the time it is given, so the last fire cannot be
+	// returned again and no fudge minute is needed. The bound stops a schedule
+	// that somehow yields a non-advancing time from spinning here.
+	next := sched.Next(r.NextFireTs.In(loc))
+	for i := 0; i < 4096 && !next.IsZero() && !next.After(now); i++ {
+		next = sched.Next(next)
+	}
+	if next.IsZero() || !next.After(now) {
 		_, err = s.db.ExecContext(ctx, "UPDATE reminders SET status = 'fired' WHERE id = ?", id)
 		return err
 	}
diff --git a/internal/store/reminders_reschedule_test.go b/internal/store/reminders_reschedule_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..89a2af7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/store/reminders_reschedule_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
+package store
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// A recurring reminder keeps its wall-clock hour in the owner's zone. The cron
+// walk used to run on the UTC instant scanReminder returns, so "0 9 * * *"
+// created for 09:00 Moscow rescheduled to 09:00 UTC — noon, and noon every day
+// after that (V-616).
+func TestRescheduleKeepsWallClockHour(t *testing.T) {
+	s := newTestStore(t)
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	msk := time.FixedZone("MSK", 3*60*60)
+
+	fire := time.Date(2026, 7, 1, 9, 0, 0, 0, msk)
+	id, err := s.CreateReminder(ctx, fire, `{"text":"стендап"}`, "0 9 * * *")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := s.rescheduleReminderIn(ctx, id, fire, msk); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("reschedule: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	want := time.Date(2026, 7, 2, 9, 0, 0, 0, msk)
+	got := nextFire(t, s, id)
+	if !got.Equal(want) {
+		t.Fatalf("next fire: want %s, got %s", want, got.In(msk))
+	}
+}
+
+// A daily reminder survives a daemon that was down for days. The past
+// occurrences are skipped, not replayed, and the reminder stays pending.
+func TestRescheduleRollsForwardAfterDowntime(t *testing.T) {
+	s := newTestStore(t)
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	msk := time.FixedZone("MSK", 3*60*60)
+
+	fire := time.Date(2026, 7, 1, 9, 0, 0, 0, msk)
+	id, err := s.CreateReminder(ctx, fire, `{"text":"стендап"}`, "0 9 * * *")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	// The box comes back three days later, mid-afternoon.
+	now := time.Date(2026, 7, 4, 15, 0, 0, 0, msk)
+	if err := s.rescheduleReminderIn(ctx, id, now, msk); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("reschedule: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	rs, err := s.ListReminders(ctx, 10)
+	if err != nil || len(rs) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("list: %d reminders, %v", len(rs), err)
+	}
+	if rs[0].Status != ReminderPending {
+		t.Fatalf("status: want %s, got %s — downtime killed the recurrence", ReminderPending, rs[0].Status)
+	}
+	want := time.Date(2026, 7, 5, 9, 0, 0, 0, msk)
+	if got := nextFire(t, s, id); !got.Equal(want) {
+		t.Fatalf("next fire: want %s, got %s", want, got.In(msk))
+	}
+	// And exactly one fire is owed, not a backlog of four.
+	due, err := s.DueReminders(ctx, want.Add(time.Second))
+	if err != nil || len(due) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("due after roll-forward: want 1, got %d (%v)", len(due), err)
+	}
+}
+
+// A daily 03:00 reminder does not drift across the spring-forward changeover:
+// the hour is wall clock, so the interval is 23 hours that day, not 24.
+func TestRescheduleAcrossDSTKeepsHour(t *testing.T) {
+	s := newTestStore(t)
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	berlin, err := time.LoadLocation("Europe/Berlin")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Skipf("tzdata unavailable: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	fire := time.Date(2027, 3, 27, 3, 0, 0, 0, berlin) // CET, day before the change
+	id, err := s.CreateReminder(ctx, fire, `{"text":"бэкап"}`, "0 3 * * *")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if err := s.rescheduleReminderIn(ctx, id, fire, berlin); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("reschedule: %v", err)
+	}
+	got := nextFire(t, s, id).In(berlin)
+	if got.Hour() != 3 || got.Day() != 28 {
+		t.Fatalf("next fire: want 2027-03-28 03:00 local, got %s", got)
+	}
+	if d := got.Sub(fire); d != 23*time.Hour {
+		t.Fatalf("gap across spring forward: want 23h, got %s", d)
+	}
+}
+
+func nextFire(t *testing.T, s *Store, id int64) time.Time {
+	t.Helper()
+	var ms int64
+	if err := s.db.QueryRow("SELECT next_fire_ts FROM reminders WHERE id = ?", id).Scan(&ms); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("read next_fire_ts: %v", err)
+	}
+	return time.UnixMilli(ms).UTC()
+}