diff --git a/ui/src/components/account/flow-viz/utils.ts b/ui/src/components/account/flow-viz/utils.ts
index e6249006..fdbd0e35 100644
--- a/ui/src/components/account/flow-viz/utils.ts
+++ b/ui/src/components/account/flow-viz/utils.ts
@@ -47,10 +47,15 @@ export function generateConnectionEvents(accounts: AccountData[]): ConnectionEve
   // Use a shared base time so events from all accounts interleave in the timeline.
   // Without this, accounts with more recent lastUsedAt dominate the sorted output.
   const now = Date.now();
-  const sharedBaseTime = accounts.reduce((latest, a) => {
-    const t = a.lastUsedAt ? new Date(a.lastUsedAt).getTime() : now;
-    return Math.max(latest, isNaN(t) ? now : t);
-  }, now);
+  const latestLastUsedAt = accounts.reduce<number | undefined>((latest, account) => {
+    if (!account.lastUsedAt) return latest;
+
+    const timestamp = new Date(account.lastUsedAt).getTime();
+    if (Number.isNaN(timestamp)) return latest;
+
+    return latest === undefined ? timestamp : Math.max(latest, timestamp);
+  }, undefined);
+  const sharedBaseTime = latestLastUsedAt ?? now;
 
   accounts.forEach((account) => {
     const lastUsed = new Date(sharedBaseTime);
diff --git a/ui/tests/unit/ui/components/account/flow-viz/utils.test.ts b/ui/tests/unit/ui/components/account/flow-viz/utils.test.ts
index 3d70a166..b5bdba4b 100644
--- a/ui/tests/unit/ui/components/account/flow-viz/utils.test.ts
+++ b/ui/tests/unit/ui/components/account/flow-viz/utils.test.ts
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ describe('generateConnectionEvents()', () => {
   });
 
   afterEach(() => {
+    vi.useRealTimers();
     vi.restoreAllMocks();
   });
 
@@ -78,6 +79,33 @@ describe('generateConnectionEvents()', () => {
     expect(emails.has('older@example.com')).toBe(true);
   });
 
+  it('bases shared timelines on the latest actual lastUsedAt instead of current time', () => {
+    vi.useFakeTimers();
+    vi.setSystemTime(new Date('2026-05-29T00:00:00.000Z'));
+
+    const latestActualLastUsedAt = new Date('2021-01-01T00:00:00.000Z').getTime();
+    const accounts: AccountData[] = [
+      makeAccount({
+        id: 'old2020',
+        email: 'old2020@example.com',
+        successCount: 1,
+        lastUsedAt: '2020-01-01T00:00:00.000Z',
+      }),
+      makeAccount({
+        id: 'old2021',
+        email: 'old2021@example.com',
+        successCount: 1,
+        lastUsedAt: '2021-01-01T00:00:00.000Z',
+      }),
+    ];
+
+    const events = generateConnectionEvents(accounts);
+    const mostRecentTimestamp = Math.max(...events.map((event) => event.timestamp.getTime()));
+
+    expect(mostRecentTimestamp).toBe(latestActualLastUsedAt);
+    expect(mostRecentTimestamp).toBeLessThan(Date.now() - 365 * 24 * 60 * 60 * 1000);
+  });
+
   it('returns at most MAX_TIMELINE_EVENTS events (cap respected by caller slice)', () => {
     // generateConnectionEvents returns all events unsorted-by-cap; cap is applied by caller.
     // But we verify total output does not exceed successCount + failureCount across accounts.