Establish UTC as the system-wide timestamp convention

All timestamps must use UTC for storage, transmission, and processing.
Local time conversion is a Central UI display concern only. Documented
in Commons (REQ-COM-1) and HighLevelReqs (Section 13.1).
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Types defined here must be immutable and thread-safe.
**Timestamp convention**: All timestamps throughout the system must use **UTC** (`DateTime` with `DateTimeKind.Utc` or `DateTimeOffset` with zero offset). This applies to all stored timestamps (SQLite, MS SQL, audit log entries), all message timestamps (attribute values, alarm state changes, health reports, event log entries, deployment records), and all wire-format timestamps (Akka remoting, Inbound API responses). Local time conversion, if needed, is a UI display concern only.
### REQ-COM-2: Protocol Abstraction
Commons must define the protocol abstraction interfaces that the Data Connection Layer implements and other components consume: