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Summary

Captures a timezone during authentication, persists it using trusted-device rules, and exposes the preference through Clerk's API and SDK surfaces. Customer-facing absolute timestamps render in the recipient's stored timezone with an explicit UTC fallback, so a new device cannot choose the timezone used in its own security notification.

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Reports the browser timezone only when creating authentication attempts and exposes timezone fields through ClerkJS resources, shared types, and Backend SDK user APIs.

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Authentication resources now capture browser or explicit timezones during creation. They persist timezone values through API responses and snapshots. Sign-up verification and update flows omit timezone values. New sign-in and sign-up flows submit timezone values when available. Backend user APIs, shared types, React state proxies, tests, documentation, and release metadata now include timezone support.

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Suggested reviewers: sarahsoutoul

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: adding timezone-based localization for Clerk email timestamps.
Description check ✅ Passed The description directly explains timezone capture during authentication, trusted-device handling, API and SDK exposure, and UTC fallback behavior.
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Packages analyzed 19
Packages with changes 2
🔴 Breaking changes 0
🟡 Non-breaking changes 5
🟢 Additions 12

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@clerk/backend

Current version: 3.20.1
Recommended bump: MINOR → 3.21.0

🟡 Non-breaking Changes (1)

Modified: User.undefined

// ... 30 unchanged lines elided ...
      createOrganizationsLimit: number | null | undefined, 
      deleteSelfEnabled: boolean, 
      legalAcceptedAt: number | null, 
-     locale: string | null);
+     locale: string | null, 
+     timezone?: string | null);

Static analyzer: Modified constructor User.undefined: Optional parameter timezone was added

🤖 AI review (confirmed) (97%): Adding an optional parameter timezone at the end of the constructor signature does not break existing callers, who can continue to omit it without any change to their code.

🟢 Additions (2)

Added: User.timezone

+ readonly timezone: string | null;

Added property User.timezone

Added: UserJSON.timezone

+ timezone: string | null;

Added property UserJSON.timezone


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Current version: 4.36.0
Recommended bump: MINOR → 4.37.0

Subpath ./types

🟡 Non-breaking Changes (4)

Modified: SignInCreateParams
// ... 33 unchanged lines elided ...
  }) & {
    transfer?: boolean;
    signUpIfMissing?: boolean;
+   timezone?: string;
  };

Static analyzer: Breaking change in type alias SignInCreateParams: Type changed: ({identifier:string;}|{strategy:import("@clerk/shared").AppleIdTokenStrategy;token:string;}|{strategy:import("@clerk/sh… → ({identifier:string;}|{strategy:import("@clerk/shared").AppleIdTokenStrategy;token:string;}|{strategy:import("@clerk/sh…

🤖 AI review (reclassified as non-breaking) (97%): The only change is adding an optional timezone?: string property to the intersection's base object in SignInCreateParams; since this type is used only as an input parameter (passed by consumers to SignInResource.create), adding a new optional field does not break any existing caller.

Modified: SignInFuturePasswordParams
  type SignInFuturePasswordParams = {
-   password: string;
+   password: string; /** The timezone to assign to the new sign-in attempt. If omitted, reuses the current sign-in's timezone, then defaults to the browser's timezone. */
+   timezone?: string;
  } & ({
    identifier: string;
    emailAddress?: never;
// ... 14 unchanged lines elided ...

Static analyzer: Breaking change in type alias SignInFuturePasswordParams: Type changed: ({emailAddress:string;identifier?:never;phoneNumber?:never;}|{identifier:string;emailAddress?:never;phoneNumber?:never;… → ({emailAddress:string;identifier?:never;phoneNumber?:never;}|{identifier:string;emailAddress?:never;phoneNumber?:never;…

🤖 AI review (reclassified as non-breaking) (97%): The only change is adding an optional timezone?: string property to SignInFuturePasswordParams; since this type is used only as an input parameter (passed by consumers to SignInFutureResource.password), adding a new optional field does not break any existing caller.

Modified: SignUpCreateParams
// ... 13 unchanged lines elided ...
    oidcLoginHint: string;
    channel: PhoneCodeChannel;
    locale?: string;
+   timezone?: string;
  } & Omit<SnakeToCamel<Record<SignUpAttributeField | SignUpVerifiableField, string>>, 'legalAccepted'>>;

Static analyzer: Breaking change in type alias SignUpCreateParams: Type changed: !Partial:type<{externalAccountStrategy:string;externalAccountRedirectUrl:string;externalAccountActionCompleteRedirectUr… → !Partial:type<{externalAccountStrategy:string;externalAccountRedirectUrl:string;externalAccountActionCompleteRedirectUr…

🤖 AI review (reclassified as non-breaking) (97%): The only change is adding an optional timezone?: string inside the Partial<...> in SignUpCreateParams; wrapped in Partial it becomes timezone?: string | undefined, and since this type is used only as an input parameter, adding a new optional field does not break any existing caller.

Modified: SignUpUpdateParams
- type SignUpUpdateParams = SignUpCreateParams;
+ type SignUpUpdateParams = Omit<SignUpCreateParams, 'timezone'>;

Static analyzer: Breaking change in type alias SignUpUpdateParams: Type changed: import("@clerk/shared").SignUpCreateParams → !Omit:type<import("@clerk/shared").SignUpCreateParams,'timezone'>

🤖 AI review (reclassified as non-breaking) (95%): SignUpUpdateParams changes from SignUpCreateParams to Omit<SignUpCreateParams, 'timezone'>, which removes the newly-added optional timezone field; since the field was never present in the baseline and this type is used only as an input parameter, no existing consumer code is affected.

🟢 Additions (10)

Added: SignInFutureCreateParams.timezone
+ timezone?: string;

Added property SignInFutureCreateParams.timezone

Added: SignInFutureResource.timezone
+ readonly timezone: string | null;

Added property SignInFutureResource.timezone

Added: SignInJSON.timezone
+ timezone: string | null;

Added property SignInJSON.timezone

Added: SignInResource.timezone
+ timezone: string | null;

Added property SignInResource.timezone

Added: SignUpFutureCreateParams.timezone
+ timezone?: string;

Added property SignUpFutureCreateParams.timezone

Added: SignUpFutureResource.timezone
+ readonly timezone: string | null;

Added property SignUpFutureResource.timezone

Added: SignUpJSON.timezone
+ timezone: string | null;

Added property SignUpJSON.timezone

Added: SignUpResource.timezone
+ timezone: string | null;

Added property SignUpResource.timezone

Added: UserJSON.timezone
+ timezone: string | null;

Added property UserJSON.timezone

Added: UserResource.timezone
+ timezone: string | null;

Added property UserResource.timezone


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Left a comment/question on the ability to roll back APIs, but looks good to me, nice work!

Comment thread packages/clerk-js/src/core/resources/SignIn.ts
Comment thread packages/clerk-js/src/core/resources/SignUp.ts Outdated
Prepare, attempt, and ticket params are already typed without timezone,
matching SignIn. Keep the guard where create params can reach a PATCH
(e.g. upsert) and document why.
FAPI ignores timezone on sign-up PATCH (no unknown-param check, value is
create-only), so stripping it client-side guards against nothing.
# Conflicts:
#	packages/clerk-js/bundlewatch.config.json
#	packages/clerk-js/src/core/resources/__tests__/SignUp.test.ts
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