diff --git a/server/CLAUDE.md b/server/CLAUDE.md
index aca926a78..6e4710867 100644
--- a/server/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/server/CLAUDE.md
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ Single test: `npx vitest run tests/unit/nest/weather.controller.test.ts`, or `np
 
 **Build emits even with type errors** (`scripts/build.mjs` catches `tsc` failures and warns). `npm run build` succeeding does **not** mean the code typechecks — run `npm run typecheck`.
 
-**`lint:dialect`** (`scripts/dialect-lint.mjs`) reads every string and template literal under `src/` (comments do not count) and every `.insertId` read, and counts the SQLite-only spellings per file and rule: `INSERT OR IGNORE`/`REPLACE`, `datetime()`/`julianday()`, `strftime`, `json_extract` and its siblings, `GLOB`, `last_insert_rowid`, `AUTOINCREMENT`, a `PRAGMA` statement outside the `src/db/*.ts` lifecycle files and the migrations, and `||` concatenation in SQL. The counts are held to `scripts/dialect-baseline.json`; a new hit fails, and so does an entry above what its file holds now, so the change that removes one runs `npm run lint:dialect -- --update` (it never raises or adds an entry). `src/db/dialect/sql-functions.ts` is not scanned, and neither are the migrations up to `FROZEN_MIGRATIONS_THROUGH` in the script; a newer migration is held to the DML rules, while its DDL stays engine specific.
+**`lint:dialect`** (`scripts/dialect-lint.mjs`) reads every string and template literal under `src/` (comments do not count) and every `.insertId` read, and counts the SQLite-only spellings per file and rule: `INSERT OR IGNORE`/`REPLACE`, `datetime()`/`julianday()`/`unixepoch()` (also as the bare name handed to `eb.fn`), `strftime`, `json_extract` and its siblings, `GLOB`, `last_insert_rowid`, `AUTOINCREMENT`, a `PRAGMA` statement outside the `src/db/*.ts` lifecycle files and the migrations, and `||` concatenation in SQL. The counts are held to `scripts/dialect-baseline.json`; a new hit fails, and so does an entry above what its file holds now, so the change that removes one runs `npm run lint:dialect -- --update` (it never raises or adds an entry). `src/db/dialect/sql-functions.ts` is not scanned, and neither are the migrations up to `FROZEN_MIGRATIONS_THROUGH` in the script; a newer migration is held to the DML rules, while its DDL stays engine specific.
 
 ## Architecture invariants
 
diff --git a/server/scripts/dialect-lint.mjs b/server/scripts/dialect-lint.mjs
index f12f072e5..75388ca8f 100644
--- a/server/scripts/dialect-lint.mjs
+++ b/server/scripts/dialect-lint.mjs
@@ -58,7 +58,9 @@ export const RULES = [
   },
   {
     name: 'datetime',
-    test: (text) => /\b(datetime|julianday|unixepoch)\s*\(/i.test(text),
+    // The call in SQL text, or the bare name the query builder takes in eb.fn('datetime', [...]).
+    test: (text) =>
+      /\b(datetime|julianday|unixepoch)\s*\(/i.test(text) || /^(datetime|julianday|unixepoch)$/i.test(text.trim()),
     advice: 'use currentTimestamp/nowMinusDays/nowPlusSeconds and friends from sql-functions.ts',
     migrations: true,
   },
diff --git a/server/tests/unit/scripts/dialect-lint.test.ts b/server/tests/unit/scripts/dialect-lint.test.ts
index 993ab548d..b024439fe 100644
--- a/server/tests/unit/scripts/dialect-lint.test.ts
+++ b/server/tests/unit/scripts/dialect-lint.test.ts
@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ describe('dialect-lint.mjs', () => {
     ['insert-or', "void 'INSERT OR IGNORE INTO t (a) VALUES (?)';"],
     ['insert-or', 'void `INSERT OR REPLACE INTO t (a) VALUES (?)`;'],
     ['datetime', "void \"UPDATE t SET at = datetime('now')\";"],
+    ['datetime', "declare function fn(name: string, args: string[]): void;\nfn('julianday', ['now']);"],
     ['strftime', "void `SELECT strftime('%s', 'now')`;"],
     ['json', "void 'SELECT json_extract(settings, ?) FROM users';"],
     ['glob', "void 'SELECT id FROM t WHERE name GLOB ?';"],