diff --git a/backend/src/Taskdeck.Infrastructure/Repositories/LlmQueueRepository.cs b/backend/src/Taskdeck.Infrastructure/Repositories/LlmQueueRepository.cs
index 3f85fee7d..41063139f 100644
--- a/backend/src/Taskdeck.Infrastructure/Repositories/LlmQueueRepository.cs
+++ b/backend/src/Taskdeck.Infrastructure/Repositories/LlmQueueRepository.cs
@@ -521,12 +521,14 @@ public async Task<IReadOnlyList<LlmRequest>> GetStuckProcessingNonCaptureAsync(
             throw new ArgumentOutOfRangeException(nameof(limit), limit, "Limit must be at least 1.");
         }
 
+        var staleBeforeUtc = staleBefore.ToUniversalTime();
+
         if (_context.Database.IsSqlite())
         {
             // SQLite's EF provider cannot translate WHERE/ORDER BY on a DateTimeOffset column, so the
             // staleness comparison + order + LIMIT live in raw SQL. The TEXT comparison is chronological
-            // because every UpdatedAt writer (Entity ctor/Touch and the raw claim UPDATEs) and staleBefore
-            // are all DateTimeOffset.UtcNow, so they share a fixed-width "+00:00" offset and lexical order
+            // because every UpdatedAt writer (Entity ctor/Touch and the raw claim UPDATEs) and the
+            // normalized cutoff are all fixed at a "+00:00" offset, so lexical order
             // equals chronological order -- the same shape the shipped
             // OutboundWebhookDeliveryRepository.GetStuckProcessingAsync relies on.
             // FromSqlInterpolated + Include wraps this in a subquery that does not guarantee the raw
@@ -536,7 +538,7 @@ public async Task<IReadOnlyList<LlmRequest>> GetStuckProcessingNonCaptureAsync(
             // UpdatedAt) and never reads the User/Board navigations, so loading them is wasted work.
             var rows = await _context.LlmRequests
                 .FromSqlInterpolated(
-                    $"SELECT * FROM LlmRequests WHERE Status = {(int)RequestStatus.Processing} AND RequestType NOT LIKE {CaptureRequestTypeLike} AND UpdatedAt <= {staleBefore} ORDER BY UpdatedAt ASC LIMIT {limit}")
+                    $"SELECT * FROM LlmRequests WHERE Status = {(int)RequestStatus.Processing} AND RequestType NOT LIKE {CaptureRequestTypeLike} AND UpdatedAt <= {staleBeforeUtc} ORDER BY UpdatedAt ASC LIMIT {limit}")
                 .ToListAsync(cancellationToken);
             return rows.OrderBy(lr => lr.UpdatedAt).ToList();
         }
@@ -546,7 +548,7 @@ public async Task<IReadOnlyList<LlmRequest>> GetStuckProcessingNonCaptureAsync(
         return await _context.LlmRequests
             .Where(lr => lr.Status == RequestStatus.Processing
                 && !EF.Functions.Like(lr.RequestType, CaptureRequestTypeLike)
-                && lr.UpdatedAt <= staleBefore)
+                && lr.UpdatedAt <= staleBeforeUtc)
             .OrderBy(lr => lr.UpdatedAt)
             .Take(limit)
             .ToListAsync(cancellationToken);
diff --git a/backend/tests/Taskdeck.Api.Tests/LlmQueueRepositoryIntegrationTests.cs b/backend/tests/Taskdeck.Api.Tests/LlmQueueRepositoryIntegrationTests.cs
index 33e3cfec8..8bd419a65 100644
--- a/backend/tests/Taskdeck.Api.Tests/LlmQueueRepositoryIntegrationTests.cs
+++ b/backend/tests/Taskdeck.Api.Tests/LlmQueueRepositoryIntegrationTests.cs
@@ -630,6 +630,33 @@ await WithSqliteRepoAsync(async (db, repo) =>
         });
     }
 
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task GetStuckProcessingNonCaptureAsync_WithNonUtcThreshold_ComparesByInstant()
+    {
+        await WithSqliteRepoAsync(async (db, repo) =>
+        {
+            var user = new User("stuck-offset", "stuck-offset@example.com", "hash");
+            db.Users.Add(user);
+
+            var stale = new LlmRequest(user.Id, "instruction", "{}");
+            stale.MarkAsProcessing();
+            var fresh = new LlmRequest(user.Id, "instruction", "{}");
+            fresh.MarkAsProcessing();
+
+            var cutoffUtc = new DateTimeOffset(2026, 1, 1, 22, 0, 0, TimeSpan.Zero);
+            db.Entry(stale).Property(nameof(Entity.UpdatedAt)).CurrentValue = cutoffUtc.AddHours(-1);
+            db.Entry(fresh).Property(nameof(Entity.UpdatedAt)).CurrentValue = cutoffUtc.AddHours(1);
+            db.LlmRequests.AddRange(stale, fresh);
+            await db.SaveChangesAsync();
+            db.ChangeTracker.Clear();
+
+            var nonUtcCutoff = cutoffUtc.ToOffset(TimeSpan.FromHours(2));
+            var stuck = await repo.GetStuckProcessingNonCaptureAsync(nonUtcCutoff, 50);
+
+            stuck.Select(request => request.Id).Should().Equal(stale.Id);
+        });
+    }
+
     [Fact]
     public async Task GetStuckProcessingNonCaptureAsync_ReturnsOldestFirstAndRespectsLimit()
     {