[spencermountain]

7.16.0 [Oct 2026]

• [change] deprecated but exposed .d date now is in UTC - users can do s.toNativeDate()
• [change] - use UTC date methods internally to reduce bias of local computer
• [fix] - correct Chatham and NZ-CHAT transitions to 03:45 and 02:45
• [fix] - apply Lord Howe's half-hour DST shift to the Australia/LHI alias
• [fix] - hemispheres for 42 zones
• [fix] - preserve fractional timezone offsets, support UTC±14, and reject malformed offsets
• [fix] - point the North Dakota shortcut to Central time and resolve nested timezone city names
• [change] - reject malformed clock fields in date strings Introduce error handling to parsing mechanism #450
• [change] - parse two-digit years including 12/30/19 12:22:08 PM Custom string when instantiating  #179
• [change] - support {silent: false} for Question: isTimeUnit() helper #451
• [fix] - midnight and noon issue in .hour12('12am') and .hour12('12pm')
• [fix] - preserve day-first parsing (dmy) through cloning, arithmetic, and chained setters
• [fix] - decade and century arithmetic, clamping leap days to the target year
• [update] - dependencies