diff --git a/repositories/deliveriesRepository.go b/repositories/deliveriesRepository.go
index d89158f..f4abb7b 100644
--- a/repositories/deliveriesRepository.go
+++ b/repositories/deliveriesRepository.go
@@ -197,6 +197,12 @@ func (r *deliveriesRepository) CreateDeliveries(data []models.Deliveries) error
 	return nil
 }
 
+// stampNow is the one clock these tables are written from: server local time,
+// in the layout every lifecycle column already uses.
+func stampNow() string {
+	return time.Now().Format("2006-01-02 15:04:05")
+}
+
 func (r *deliveriesRepository) UpdateDelivery(data models.UpdateDeliveryStatus) error {
 	var ord models.Updateorderstatus
 	var cloc models.Customerlocations
@@ -210,6 +216,52 @@ func (r *deliveriesRepository) UpdateDelivery(data models.UpdateDeliveryStatus)
 		return tx.Error
 	}
 
+	// The lifecycle timestamp on the DELIVERY row, stamped when the caller does
+	// not send one.
+	//
+	// This is why the journey timings were blank. `Updates` with a struct skips
+	// zero-valued fields, and the rider app sends {deliveryid, orderstatus} and
+	// nothing else — so starttime, arrivaltime, pickuptime and deliverytime were
+	// only ever written by a client that volunteered them, and none does.
+	// Measured on live tenant 1147: every delivery row carries an assigntime
+	// (written at assign) and an empty string in all five of the others, so the
+	// step-by-step timings in the console had nothing to show at any stage.
+	//
+	// The order side of this was already fixed — see `stamp` below, which does
+	// exactly this for the mirrored order columns. The delivery's own row was
+	// left out, which is the half an operator actually looks at.
+	//
+	// Same format as the column already holds ("2006-01-02 15:04:05", server
+	// local): a second convention in one column would be worse than none.
+	if now := stampNow(); now != "" {
+		switch data.Orderstatus {
+		case "pending":
+			if strings.TrimSpace(data.Assigntime) == "" {
+				data.Assigntime = now
+			}
+		case "accepted":
+			if strings.TrimSpace(data.Starttime) == "" {
+				data.Starttime = now
+			}
+		case "arrived":
+			if strings.TrimSpace(data.Arrivaltime) == "" {
+				data.Arrivaltime = now
+			}
+		case "picked":
+			if strings.TrimSpace(data.Pickuptime) == "" {
+				data.Pickuptime = now
+			}
+		case "delivered":
+			if strings.TrimSpace(data.Deliverytime) == "" {
+				data.Deliverytime = now
+			}
+		case "cancelled":
+			if strings.TrimSpace(data.Canceltime) == "" {
+				data.Canceltime = now
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
 	if err := tx.Table("deliveries").Where("deliveryid = ?", data.Deliveryid).Updates(&data).Error; err != nil {
 		tx.Rollback()
 		return err
@@ -262,7 +314,7 @@ func (r *deliveriesRepository) UpdateDelivery(data models.UpdateDeliveryStatus)
 		if strings.TrimSpace(supplied) != "" {
 			return supplied
 		}
-		return time.Now().Format("2006-01-02 15:04:05")
+		return stampNow()
 	}
 
 	switch data.Orderstatus {