diff --git a/docs/plans/state.json b/docs/plans/state.json
index b56872a..2e5f429 100644
--- a/docs/plans/state.json
+++ b/docs/plans/state.json
@@ -439,6 +439,18 @@
       ],
       "test_status": "pnpm test:run src/audit/phase0BaselineScriptWiring.test.ts + pnpm typecheck passing"
     },
+    "phase0-live-baseline-rolling-tag-validation-hardening": {
+      "status": "completed",
+      "date": "2026-02-27",
+      "updated": "2026-02-27",
+      "summary": "Hardened rolling artifact retention tag parsing to reject impossible timestamp components (month/day/time bounds and invalid calendar dates) so malformed filenames cannot be misclassified through date normalization.",
+      "files_modified": [
+        "src/audit/phase0BaselineArtifactRetention.ts",
+        "src/audit/phase0BaselineArtifactRetention.test.ts",
+        "docs/plans/state.json"
+      ],
+      "test_status": "pnpm test:run src/audit/phase0BaselineArtifactRetention.test.ts + pnpm typecheck passing"
+    },
     "phase0-instrumentation-ticket-checklist": {
       "status": "completed",
       "date": "2026-02-25",
diff --git a/src/audit/phase0BaselineArtifactRetention.test.ts b/src/audit/phase0BaselineArtifactRetention.test.ts
index 9764fb0..fd34309 100644
--- a/src/audit/phase0BaselineArtifactRetention.test.ts
+++ b/src/audit/phase0BaselineArtifactRetention.test.ts
@@ -97,4 +97,19 @@ describe('phase0BaselineArtifactRetention', () => {
   it('rejects negative keep limit', () => {
     expect(() => planRollingPhase0ArtifactRetention([], -1)).toThrow('keepPerFamily');
   });
+
+  it('ignores malformed rolling tags with impossible date or time values', () => {
+    const rows = collectRollingPhase0ArtifactFiles([
+      'phase0_baseline_live_2026-13-27-010203.json',
+      'phase0_baseline_live_gateway_2026-02-30-010203.json',
+      'phase0_baseline_live_backend_pi_embedded_2026-02-27-246001.json',
+      'phase0_baseline_live_backend_native_2026-02-27-016061.json',
+      'phase0_baseline_live_backend_drift_2026-02-27-010203.md',
+      'phase0_baseline_live_prune_2026-00-27-010203.json',
+    ]);
+
+    expect(rows).toHaveLength(1);
+    expect(rows[0]?.file_name).toBe('phase0_baseline_live_backend_drift_2026-02-27-010203.md');
+    expect(rows[0]?.family).toBe('backend_drift');
+  });
 });
diff --git a/src/audit/phase0BaselineArtifactRetention.ts b/src/audit/phase0BaselineArtifactRetention.ts
index ffc5002..177165e 100644
--- a/src/audit/phase0BaselineArtifactRetention.ts
+++ b/src/audit/phase0BaselineArtifactRetention.ts
@@ -74,9 +74,28 @@ function parseRollingTagTimestampMs(tag: string): number | undefined {
   if (!Number.isFinite(hour) || !Number.isFinite(minute) || !Number.isFinite(second)) {
     return undefined;
   }
+  if (month < 1 || month > 12 || day < 1 || day > 31 || hour < 0 || hour > 23 || minute < 0 || minute > 59 || second < 0 || second > 59) {
+    return undefined;
+  }
 
   const timestampMs = Date.UTC(year, month - 1, day, hour, minute, second);
-  return Number.isFinite(timestampMs) ? timestampMs : undefined;
+  if (!Number.isFinite(timestampMs)) {
+    return undefined;
+  }
+
+  const utc = new Date(timestampMs);
+  if (
+    utc.getUTCFullYear() !== year
+    || utc.getUTCMonth() !== month - 1
+    || utc.getUTCDate() !== day
+    || utc.getUTCHours() !== hour
+    || utc.getUTCMinutes() !== minute
+    || utc.getUTCSeconds() !== second
+  ) {
+    return undefined;
+  }
+
+  return timestampMs;
 }
 
 function parseRollingArtifactFile(fileName: string): Phase0RollingArtifactFile | undefined {