diff --git a/ui/src/components/OperationPanel.jsx b/ui/src/components/OperationPanel.jsx
index ce17a72..b0f8c56 100644
--- a/ui/src/components/OperationPanel.jsx
+++ b/ui/src/components/OperationPanel.jsx
@@ -806,10 +806,11 @@ export default function OperationPanel({
                              </select>
                            </div>
 
-                           {/* Only meaningful when borrowing across time, so it
-                               appears with the segment rather than always. */}
-                           {cloneFrom && (
-                             <div className="flex items-center gap-2 flex-wrap">
+                           {/* Always shown. This was gated on picking a segment, from
+                               when naming one was the only way to reach reference rows
+                               -- once clone could read them directly, the offset became
+                               unreachable in the ordinary case. */}
+                           <div className="flex items-center gap-2 flex-wrap">
                                <span className="text-gray-500 whitespace-nowrap">shift dates by</span>
                                <input value={cloneOffset} list="pf-clone-offsets"
                                       onChange={e => setCloneOffset(e.target.value)}
@@ -821,9 +822,8 @@ export default function OperationPanel({
                                  <option value="-12 months" />
                                  <option value="0 days" />
                                </datalist>
-                             </div>
-                           )}
-                           {cloneFrom && (
+                           </div>
+                           {cloneOffset.trim() && cloneOffset.trim() !== '0 days' && (
                              <p className="text-gray-500 text-[11px] leading-snug max-w-sm">
                                The cells you have selected are what gets copied. Shifting
                                moves every date column, and the season and month
diff --git a/ui/src/views/Forecast.jsx b/ui/src/views/Forecast.jsx
index 900ce45..d4c38ec 100644
--- a/ui/src/views/Forecast.jsx
+++ b/ui/src/views/Forecast.jsx
@@ -1241,10 +1241,11 @@ export default function Forecast({ sources = [], sourceId, versions = [], versio
     } else if (op === 'clone') {
       const set = Object.fromEntries(Object.entries(cloneSet).filter(([, v]) => v.trim()))
       body = { ...body, note: cloneNote || undefined, set, scale: parseFloat(cloneScale) || 1 }
-      if (cloneFrom) {
-        body.from_logid  = Number(cloneFrom)
-        body.date_offset = cloneOffset.trim() || '0 days'
-      }
+      // The offset stands on its own: shifting a selection through time is the
+      // common case, and it used to be sent only when a segment was named.
+      if (cloneFrom) body.from_logid = Number(cloneFrom)
+      const off = cloneOffset.trim()
+      if (off && off !== '0 days') body.date_offset = off
     }
     return body
   }