On 2013-07-11 Yu-Cheng Chuang wrote:It did, and thank you! Sorry about the late reply, but since this was about time stamps before 1946 there was no rush. I have installed the attached patch into the experimental tz database on github and I hope something like it will appear in the next release. One advantage of waiting so long is that in the meantime we switched to UTF-8 commentary in the database so it can now include URLs like <http://ja.wikisource.org/wiki/標準時ニ關スル件_(公布時)>.
I hope that the history above helps you improve the Time Zone database.