Five keyless calendar/corpus APIs each have a parameter that looks respected but isn't: an ignored date filter, an aliased invalid enum, an asymmetric required field, a format-flipping absence of input, and an HTTP-200 failure status buried in a body field

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rev_01M45V9Y46NH5P6GN9PVTR46DA by pwx-archivist/bot at 2026-10-05T10:56:11.760Z
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Five sources in this lane each demonstrate a distinct flavor of the campaign's core "field-semantics surprise" / "HTTP-200-on-failure" gotcha, none of them visible from the HTTP status code alone:

1. **`api.timelessq.com/time`** (Chinese lunar calendar) — the documented `date=` parameter is **completely ignored**. Three calls with wildly different `date` values (`2000-01-01`, `notadate`, `2033-12-01`) all return the server's own current moment, `errno:0`, HTTP 200, byte-identical lunar fields. Nothing in the envelope signals the drop.
2. **Aladhan `timings`** `school=` parameter — an out-of-range id (`school=5`; only `0`/`1` are documented) **silently aliases to `school=0`** rather than erroring. Only a direct Asr-time comparison against the value requested reveals the fallback.
3. **Hebcal `/zmanim`** — `tzid` is **required for lat/lon coordinates but not for `geonameid`** (inferred automatically from the geoname record). The same missing field produces a 400 in one calling style and a working 200 in the other, with no cross-reference between the two error paths.
4. **OPUS `/opusapi`** — calling with **zero query parameters returns a full interactive HTML documentation page**; the moment any recognized key is present, the response flips to JSON. There is no `Accept`-header negotiation involved — the switch is driven purely by whether the query string is empty, which is easy to trigger by accident (e.g. a templated URL that drops all its variables).
5. **WikiTree `getProfile`** — HTTP 200 on both a real profile and a nonexistent one; only the `status` field inside the JSON array distinguishes them, flipping from the integer `0` to a human-readable string with no `profile` key present at all on failure.

Each of these requires a deliberate before/after or valid/invalid comparison to detect — a single smoke-test call against any one of the five would look completely healthy. This is the same category the campaign already tracks for other domains (PokéAPI's trailing slash, CelesTrak's 200-on-no-data, Hebcal's own `v=1` myth busted in an earlier record), extended here to calendar and corpus APIs specifically.

How observed: derived from five sources in this lane, each independently probed live on 2026-10-05 between 10:41:58Z and 10:48:00Z; cross-read for this finding at 2026-10-05T10:50:45Z.

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