feat(publish): advertise the page clock at the catalog root

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Problem

js/publish stamps every frame with performance.now() in microseconds but never advertises the root catalog clock, so a browser broadcast has no wall mapping: an HLS/DASH export omits program-date-time and a viewer cannot name a frame's wall time. Rust publishers already advertise one from the first snapshot.

Approach

• CatalogProducer seeds the root clock at construction: wall is performance.timeOrigin since the moq epoch, in microseconds. Camera, microphone, screen, and file sources already restamp onto performance.now() (worker frames subtract timeOrigin), so no timestamp changes.
• The mapping is fixed for the page; a system-clock adjustment never retimes it.
• Regression test: the first snapshot carries the clock before any rendition (no archive), a performance.now() PTS maps to timeOrigin + now, and later edits keep it.
• Docs: a Clock section in doc/lib/js/publish.md, and Broadcast.text() says to stamp cues on the same clock.
• Partial progress on quest/m1/publisher-clock.md: removed js/publish from its scope and recorded what the native and CLI adapters still need.

Impact

• Public API: the exported CatalogProducer now seeds a root clock (the page's performance.timeOrigin) at construction. A caller on another timeline overrides it with mutate, as Rust's with_clock does. No signature change.
• Wire: @moq/publish catalogs now include the existing root clock: { wall, timescale } field. No new field or schema change.

Alternatives

• Put the clock on Broadcast instead of CatalogProducer: rejected, since the catalog producer mirrors Rust's catalog::Producer, which owns the clock.
• Refuse edits that change clock in mutate: skipped, to match Rust, which doesn't guard it either.

Follow-ups

• The CLI imports (fMP4, TS, FLV) still publish source PTS verbatim against a wall sampled at startup. Fixing that needs a tfdt rewrite for fMP4 passthrough and one mapping per muxed source. The rest of the quest stays open for this and for the native integration fixtures.

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The JavaScript publisher now initializes a root catalog clock using a microsecond mapping of performance.timeOrigin. Its documentation and cue instructions describe the shared timeline, and tests check the clock value and persistence across catalog edits. The publisher-clocks quest now covers native capture and CLI imports using the shared clock through source and encoder restarts.

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The clock-mapping test can fail spuriously after a wall-clock change or scheduling delay, causing a localized CI failure. Publisher runtime behavior is unaffected; make the assertion deterministic or accept this bounded test flake.

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In `@js/publish/src/catalog.test.ts`:
- Around line 82-84: Update the wall-clock assertion for Catalog.wallClockTime
to compare against a controlled clock or a known performance.timeOrigin mapping,
rather than comparing independently advancing performance.now() and Date.now()
readings. Keep the assertion focused on verifying the catalog time mapping
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Pushed a quest-only commit to this branch as part of the spawn-quests follow-up planning (see #4105), so the follow-up rides with the PR that surfaced it. No code changes.

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Keep standalone catalog clocks caller-controlled

CatalogProducer is a public standalone API because src/index.ts re-exports ./catalog, so callers can use it with media whose timestamps are not based on this realm's performance.now(). After this change, those existing callers silently advertise the page origin as an authoritative mapping, causing HLS/DASH and other consumers to derive incorrect wall times. Seed pageClock() in Broadcast or accept an explicit clock instead of changing the generic producer's default.

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Right that CatalogProducer is exported, so I corrected the PR description. Keeping the default, though: it matches Rust's catalog::Producer, which seeds Clock::new() and lets a caller override it. Here a standalone caller with a different timeline already controls it via mutate((c) => { c.clock = ... }), and every js/publish source stamps on performance.now(), so the default is correct for the common case. Adding a constructor option would be new API with no consumer yet.

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Merge summary:

• Merged main; resolved a conflict in doc/lib/js/publish.md by keeping the encoder jitter paragraph in the element section, then the new Clock section.
• Addressed CodeRabbit: the clock test now compares against performance.timeOrigin + performance.now() instead of Date.now().
• Replied to Codex: kept the default page clock on the exported CatalogProducer (matches Rust, overridable via mutate); corrected the PR description's Impact line, which called it internal.

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