I’ve found the comments in the database files (e.g. North America https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/main/northamerica ) to be an interesting documentation of the history of the definition of time for various areas. For example, Indiana https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/main/northamerica#L846

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I've Found the Comments in the Database Files (e.g. North America

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Really great reading on people fighting concepts of time.