diff --git a/lib/mastodon/routes/statuses.js b/lib/mastodon/routes/statuses.js
index 6fec78c..267bd29 100644
--- a/lib/mastodon/routes/statuses.js
+++ b/lib/mastodon/routes/statuses.js
@@ -749,16 +749,36 @@ async function findTimelineItemById(collection, id) {
     item = await collection.findOne({ published: new Date(publishedDate) });
     if (item) return item;
 
-    // Try date-range lookup for timezone-offset stored strings (+01:00 etc.)
-    // Some AP servers emit non-UTC dates; decodeCursor normalizes to UTC but
-    // the stored string may differ. Search a ±1 s window using a regex on the
-    // ms value, or simply try the raw numeric id as a direct uid/url lookup.
+    // Try ±1 s range lookup for timezone-offset stored strings (+01:00 etc.)
+    // and BSON Date fields. The UTC-ISO string range query used above fails when
+    // the stored value has a non-UTC timezone — "2026-03-21T16:33:50+01:00" is
+    // lexicographically outside ["2026-03-21T15:33:50Z", "2026-03-21T15:33:51Z"].
+    // $dateFromString parses any ISO 8601 format (including offsets) to a Date,
+    // $toLong converts it to ms-since-epoch, and the numeric range always matches.
     const ms = Number.parseInt(id, 10);
     if (ms > 0) {
-      const lo = new Date(ms - 999).toISOString().replace(/\.999Z$/, "Z");
-      const hi = new Date(ms + 999).toISOString().replace(/\.999Z$/, "Z");
+      const lo = new Date(ms - 999);
+      const hi = new Date(ms + 999);
       item = await collection.findOne({
-        published: { $gte: lo, $lte: hi },
+        $or: [
+          // BSON Date stored (Micropub pipeline) — direct Date range comparison
+          { published: { $gte: lo, $lte: hi } },
+          // String stored with any timezone format — parse via $dateFromString
+          {
+            $expr: {
+              $and: [
+                { $gte: [
+                  { $toLong: { $dateFromString: { dateString: "$published", onError: 0, onNull: 0 } } },
+                  ms - 999,
+                ] },
+                { $lte: [
+                  { $toLong: { $dateFromString: { dateString: "$published", onError: 0, onNull: 0 } } },
+                  ms + 999,
+                ] },
+              ],
+            },
+          },
+        ],
       });
       if (item) return item;
     }