diff --git a/src/core/gen2/Clock.lua b/src/core/gen2/Clock.lua
index e926cda7..a74d2113 100644
--- a/src/core/gen2/Clock.lua
+++ b/src/core/gen2/Clock.lua
@@ -16,13 +16,56 @@
 -- it (src/ui/gen2/InitClock.lua, src/script/gen2/Specials.lua SetDayOfWeek)
 -- and World only ever reads it.
 
+local Palettes = require("src.world.gen2.Palettes")
 local Runtime = require("src.mods.Runtime")
+local Strings = require("src.core.Strings")
 
 local Clock = {}
 
 Clock.MINUTES_PER_DAY = 24 * 60
 Clock.DAYS = 7
 
+-- data/text/day_of_week.asm order, which is wCurDay's own: SUNDAY is 0, so
+-- index 1 is SUNDAY -- matching both InitClock's `self.day + 1` and
+-- `Clock.weekday(save) + 1`.  Strings.source, not Strings: built at require
+-- time, before Strings.load has a catalog, so Clock.weekdayName looks each
+-- name up at display time instead (src/battle/MoveEffects.lua's STAT_LABEL
+-- is the same pattern).  One shared table and one lookup function, so
+-- InitClock's screens, the main menu clock box and the Pokegear clock card
+-- cannot drift apart on what a weekday is called.
+Clock.DAY_NAMES = {
+  Strings.source("SUNDAY"), Strings.source("MONDAY"), Strings.source("TUESDAY"),
+  Strings.source("WEDNESDAY"), Strings.source("THURSDAY"), Strings.source("FRIDAY"),
+  Strings.source("SATURDAY"),
+}
+
+-- The translated name for a 1-based weekday (SUNDAY = 1), or nil if `day` is
+-- out of range.
+function Clock.weekdayName(day)
+  local name = Clock.DAY_NAMES[day]
+  return name and Strings(name)
+end
+
+-- The three words Palettes.clockDaytime can hand back, translated (never
+-- DARK: that one only comes out of Palettes.daytimeFor, for a PALETTE_DARK
+-- map, and is never printed as text).  Strings.source, not Strings:
+-- clockDaytime's return value is also an internal key every
+-- FORCED_DAYTIME/palette lookup in Palettes.lua compares against, so THAT
+-- stays untranslated -- only this table, and Clock.daytimeLabel below, look
+-- a word up, at the UI call sites that actually print it.
+local DAYTIME_LABEL = {
+  MORN = Strings.source("MORN"), DAY = Strings.source("DAY"),
+  NITE = Strings.source("NITE"),
+}
+
+-- clockDaytime's word, translated -- the one InitClock's clock-setting
+-- screen and the Pokegear's clock card print (DisplayHourOClock /
+-- Pokegear_UpdateClock).
+function Clock.daytimeLabel(hour)
+  local daytime = Palettes.clockDaytime(hour)
+  return Strings(DAYTIME_LABEL[daytime] or daytime)
+end
+
 -- InitClock's own default: `ld a, 10 ; default hour = 10 AM`, with the minute
 -- buffer left at the zero ByteFill put there.
 Clock.DEFAULT_HOUR = 10
diff --git a/src/ui/gen2/InitClock.lua b/src/ui/gen2/InitClock.lua
index d06bd81c..b957c956 100644
--- a/src/ui/gen2/InitClock.lua
+++ b/src/ui/gen2/InitClock.lua
@@ -60,10 +60,11 @@ InitClock.TEXT = TEXT
 -- same three and has always had them right.
 local MORN_HOUR, DAY_HOUR, NITE_HOUR = 4, 10, 18
 
--- data/text/day_of_week.asm order, which is wCurDay's own: SUNDAY is 0.
-local DAYS = {
-  "SUNDAY", "MONDAY", "TUESDAY", "WEDNESDAY", "THURSDAY", "FRIDAY", "SATURDAY",
-}
+-- Clock.DAY_NAMES / Clock.weekdayName is the single translated home for this
+-- table: MainMenu's clock box and the Pokegear's clock card read the same
+-- weekday off the same save and must never disagree about what it is
+-- called.
+local DAYS = Clock.DAY_NAMES
 InitClock.DAYS = DAYS
 
 function InitClock:wantsFillScale() return true end
@@ -88,12 +89,15 @@ function InitClock.hourString(hour)
   local h = math.floor(hour or 0) % 24
   local display = h % 12
   if display == 0 then display = 12 end
-  local word = require("src.world.gen2.Palettes").clockDaytime(h)
+  -- Clock.daytimeLabel, not Palettes.clockDaytime: the printed word,
+  -- translated -- this string reaches the player as-is, unlike the internal
+  -- MORN/DAY/NITE key other palette code compares against.
+  local word = Clock.daytimeLabel(h)
   return ("%s %d"):format(word, display)
 end
 
 function InitClock.oclockString(hour)
-  return InitClock.hourString(hour) .. " o'clock"
+  return Strings("%s o'clock", InitClock.hourString(hour))
 end
 
 function InitClock.timeString(hour, minute)
@@ -187,7 +191,7 @@ function InitClock:question()
     return Strings(TEXT.whoaMinutes, self.minute)
   end
   if self.phase == "confirm-day" then
-    return Strings(TEXT.confirmDay, DAYS[self.day + 1] or "?")
+    return Strings(TEXT.confirmDay, Clock.weekdayName(self.day + 1) or "?")
   end
   if self.phase == "response" then
     return Strings(TEXT[InitClock.responseKey(self.hour)],
@@ -196,11 +200,15 @@ function InitClock:question()
   return ""
 end
 
+-- data/text/common_1.asm's "@MIN." suffix (DisplayMinutesWithMinString),
+-- separate from TEXT.whoaMinutes' own "%d min.?" confirmation line above.
+local MINUTES = Strings.source("%d min.")
+
 -- The value the picker box shows, or nil while a page is up with no picker.
 function InitClock:display()
   if self.phase == "hour" then return InitClock.oclockString(self.hour) end
-  if self.phase == "minute" then return ("%d min."):format(self.minute) end
-  if self.phase == "day" then return DAYS[self.day + 1] or "?" end
+  if self.phase == "minute" then return Strings(MINUTES, self.minute) end
+  if self.phase == "day" then return Clock.weekdayName(self.day + 1) or "?" end
   return nil
 end
 
diff --git a/src/ui/gen2/MainMenu.lua b/src/ui/gen2/MainMenu.lua
index ac3ed88e..c8fb68fc 100644
--- a/src/ui/gen2/MainMenu.lua
+++ b/src/ui/gen2/MainMenu.lua
@@ -29,10 +29,11 @@ local MainMenu = {}
 MainMenu.__index = MainMenu
 MainMenu.isOpaque = true
 
--- MainMenu_PrintCurrentTimeAndDay's PrintDayOfWeek strings.
-local DAYS = {
-  "SUNDAY", "MONDAY", "TUESDAY", "WEDNESDAY", "THURSDAY", "FRIDAY", "SATURDAY",
-}
+-- MainMenu_PrintCurrentTimeAndDay's PrintDayOfWeek strings.  Clock.DAY_NAMES
+-- / Clock.weekdayName is the single translated home for this table (see
+-- InitClock.lua's DAYS), so this screen's clock box cannot drift from the
+-- Pokegear's own.
+local DAYS = Clock.DAY_NAMES
 
 -- MUSIC_MAIN_MENU; resolved by name so a cache without it just stays quiet.
 local MENU_MUSIC = "Music_MainMenu"
@@ -164,7 +165,7 @@ function MainMenu:drawClockBox()
   -- Textbox at (0,12) with 4 interior rows and 13 interior columns.
   Chrome.textbox(0, 12, 13, 4)
   local hour, minute, weekday = self:clockParts()
-  Chrome.print(DAYS[weekday] or "DAY", 1, 14)
+  Chrome.print(Clock.weekdayName(weekday) or "DAY", 1, 14)
   -- PrintHour prints 1-12 with no leading zero, then ':' then two zero-padded
   -- minutes; the AM/PM half is drawn by PrintHour itself.
   local display = hour % 12
diff --git a/src/ui/gen2/Pokegear.lua b/src/ui/gen2/Pokegear.lua
index 0413cdaa..30bbea33 100644
--- a/src/ui/gen2/Pokegear.lua
+++ b/src/ui/gen2/Pokegear.lua
@@ -56,10 +56,6 @@ local CARDS = {
 -- card over.  One row, so `#self.cards` stays 1 and nothing pages.
 local FLY_MAP_CARD = { id = "map", label = "FLY" }
 
-local DAYS = {
-  "SUNDAY", "MONDAY", "TUESDAY", "WEDNESDAY", "THURSDAY", "FRIDAY", "SATURDAY",
-}
-
 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- the radio
 --
 -- engine/pokegear/radio.asm is not a text table: it is a jumptable of code.
@@ -1878,7 +1874,7 @@ function Pokegear:drawClock()
   -- Pokegear_UpdateClock: ClearBox(3,5) 5x14, the day at (6,6) and
   -- PrintHoursMins at (6,8) -- two digits, ':', two more, then AM/PM at
   -- column 12.
-  self:text(DAYS[weekday] or "", 6, 6)
+  self:text(Clock.weekdayName(weekday) or "", 6, 6)
   local display = hour % 12
   if display == 0 then display = 12 end
   self:text(Chrome.number(display, 2), 6, 8)
@@ -2203,13 +2199,13 @@ function Pokegear:drawPlain()
   if id == "clock" then
     local hour, minute, weekday = self:clockParts()
     Chrome.box(1, 5, 18, 7)
-    Chrome.print(DAYS[weekday] or "DAY", 3, 7)
+    Chrome.print(Clock.weekdayName(weekday) or "DAY", 3, 7)
     local display = hour % 12
     if display == 0 then display = 12 end
     Chrome.print(("%s:%s %s"):format(
       Chrome.number(display, 2), Chrome.number(minute, 2, true),
       hour < 12 and "AM" or "PM"), 5, 9)
-    Chrome.print(Palettes.clockDaytime(hour), 5, 11)
+    Chrome.print(Clock.daytimeLabel(hour), 5, 11)
   elseif id == "radio" then
     -- Without the gear sheet there is no dial art, so the frequencies go down
     -- the screen as a list.  A frequency whose test failed still gets a row:
diff --git a/tests/gen2_clock_test.lua b/tests/gen2_clock_test.lua
index 91848816..3d82d007 100644
--- a/tests/gen2_clock_test.lua
+++ b/tests/gen2_clock_test.lua
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ require("src.core.Logger").warn = function() end
 
 local Clock = require("src.core.gen2.Clock")
 local InitClock = require("src.ui.gen2.InitClock")
+local Strings = require("src.core.Strings")
 
 -- A stub input the screen drives off, the same shape Input:wasPressed has.
 local function fakeInput()
@@ -254,4 +255,66 @@ do
   end
 end
 
+-- Clock.DAY_NAMES / Clock.weekdayName / Clock.daytimeLabel: the single home
+-- InitClock, MainMenu and the Pokegear clock card all share, so a weekday
+-- cannot be named one way on one screen and another way on the next.
+do
+  eq(Clock.weekdayName(1), "SUNDAY", "1-based, SUNDAY first")
+  eq(Clock.weekdayName(6), "FRIDAY", "and the rest in wCurDay's order")
+  check(Clock.weekdayName(0) == nil, "day 0 is out of range")
+  check(Clock.weekdayName(8) == nil, "and so is day 8")
+
+  eq(Clock.daytimeLabel(4), "MORN", "daytimeLabel matches clockDaytime's word")
+  eq(Clock.daytimeLabel(10), "DAY", "for every hour band")
+  eq(Clock.daytimeLabel(20), "NITE", "including the wrap back to NITE")
+
+  local MainMenu = require("src.ui.gen2.MainMenu")
+  check(MainMenu.DAYS == Clock.DAY_NAMES,
+    "MainMenu reuses the same table InitClock and the Pokegear do")
+end
+
+-- ------------------------------------------------- a translation mod's turn
+--
+-- DAYS, the clockDaytime word and the "o'clock"/"min." suffixes used to
+-- bypass Strings entirely, so a translation mod's `strings` registry had no
+-- seam to catch them: the picker kept printing the English day name and
+-- "o'clock" no matter the catalog (reported from a real Gold build).
+do
+  Strings.load({
+    strings = {
+      SUNDAY = "DIMANCHE",
+      MORN = "MATIN",
+      ["%s o'clock"] = "%s heures",
+      ["%d min."] = "%d min",
+    },
+  })
+
+  local wheel = InitClock.new({ input = fakeInput() }, { mode = "day", save = {} })
+  eq(wheel:display(), "DIMANCHE", "a translated catalog reaches the day wheel")
+
+  eq(InitClock.hourString(4), "MATIN 4",
+    "and the clockDaytime word, through Clock.daytimeLabel")
+  eq(InitClock.oclockString(4), "MATIN 4 heures",
+    "and the o'clock suffix, template and all")
+
+  local minutePicker = InitClock.new({ input = fakeInput() }, { save = {} })
+  minutePicker.phase = "minute"
+  minutePicker.minute = 30
+  eq(minutePicker:display(), "30 min", "and the minutes picker's own suffix")
+
+  -- Palettes.clockDaytime itself must stay untranslated even with a catalog
+  -- loaded: FORCED_DAYTIME and the rest of Palettes.lua's own lookups
+  -- compare against its return value as an internal key, not display text.
+  local Palettes = require("src.world.gen2.Palettes")
+  eq(Palettes.clockDaytime(4), "MORN",
+    "the internal palette key is untouched by the loaded catalog")
+
+  -- Module state is process-global and tests/run_tests.lua runs every suite
+  -- in one process (see tests/mod_strings_tests.lua's own note): leaving the
+  -- catalog loaded would translate the day/hour of every suite after this
+  -- one.
+  Strings.load({})
+  check(not Strings.active(), "the catalog is unloaded for the suites after this one")
+end
+
 S.finish()