<div style="font-size:10pt; font-family:나눔고딕,NanumGothic,sans-serif;"><p>Thanks for applying the patch and fixing my mistake.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I could not find the article of '여적 표준시 변경, 경향신문, 2000-08-14', referenced in Korean Wikipedia.<br>But I found many articles to prove that Korea switched to UTC+9 in 1912.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>- <a href="http://newslibrary.naver.com/viewer/index.nhn?articleId=1954031400329203002&amp;editNo=1&amp;printCount=1&amp;publishDate=1954-03-14&amp;officeId=00032&amp;pageNo=3&amp;printNo=2455&amp;publishType=00020">http://newslibrary.naver.com/viewer/index.nhn?articleId=1954031400329203002&amp;editNo=1&amp;printCount=1&amp;publishDate=1954-03-14&amp;officeId=00032&amp;pageNo=3&amp;printNo=2455&amp;publishType=00020</a><br>(This is the oldest article, in 1954)<br>- <a href="http://www.daehansinbo.com/news/article.html?no=10992">http://www.daehansinbo.com/news/article.html?no=10992</a></p><p>- <a href="http://news.khan.co.kr/kh_news/khan_art_view.html?artid=201311211816081">http://news.khan.co.kr/kh_news/khan_art_view.html?artid=201311211816081</a><br>- <a href="http://news.khan.co.kr/kh_news/khan_art_view.html?artid=201008092147425">http://news.khan.co.kr/kh_news/khan_art_view.html?artid=201008092147425</a></p><p>- <a href="http://www.pressian.com/news/article.html?no=109609">http://www.pressian.com/news/article.html?no=109609</a><br>- <a href="http://www.daehansinbo.com/news/article.html?no=10992">http://www.daehansinbo.com/news/article.html?no=10992</a></p><p>- <a href="http://article.joins.com/news/article/article.asp?total_id=15943757&amp;cloc=olink|article|default">http://article.joins.com/news/article/article.asp?total_id=15943757&amp;cloc=olink|article|default</a><br>- <a href="http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&amp;mid=sec&amp;sid1=102&amp;oid=002&amp;aid=0001995592">http://news.naver.com/main/read.nhn?mode=LSD&amp;mid=sec&amp;sid1=102&amp;oid=002&amp;aid=0001995592</a><br><br>And no article said that it was in 1910.<br><br>Japanese annexation of Korea was started in 1910. I guess that someone may be confused between the annexation and switching timezone.<br><br>And I also searched records about changes of timezone in Pyongyang, but I fail to find any meaningful articles.<br>I agree with your assumption about&nbsp; Pyongyang, no change since World War II.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Thank you again. <br>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p style="font-size:10pt;FONT-FAMILY: Gulim,AppleGothic,sans-serif;padding:0 0 0 10pt"><span>-----Original Message-----</span><br><b>From:</b> "Paul Eggert"&lt;eggert@cs.ucla.edu&gt; <br><b>To:</b> "정상혁"&lt;sanghyuk.jung@navercorp.com&gt;; &lt;tz@iana.org&gt;; <br><b>Cc:</b> <br><b>Sent:</b> 2014-10-31 (금) 15:53:09<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [tz] [PATCH] * asia (Asia/Seoul) correct DST.<br><br>Thank you.  I noticed a minor error in the proposed rules, namely "Sep Sun&gt;=20" <br>should be "Sun Sep&gt;=18" for 1960-09-18 to work.<br><br>More important, the Wikipedia data for times before 1961 disagree with the tz <br>database, which suggests that more corrections are needed.  While we're in the <br>neighborhood, it's completely implausible that Pyongyang faithfully mimicked <br>Seoul time during and after the Korean war (which is what Shanks says), so let's <br>remove that obviously-bogus guess.  Attached is a proposed patch that tries to <br>capture all this.<br><br>Unfortunately I am puzzled by the Wikipedia text "1910년 4월: 동경 135° UTC+9:로 <br>변경."  This cites "여적 표준시 변경, 경향신문, 2000-08-14", a source that I <br>cannot easily read.  If Korea switched to UT+9 in April 1910, then why is there <br>a later entry for 1912 that says "동경 135° UTC+9로 변경. 조선총독부 관보 제367 <br>호(고시 제338호)"?  That is, if Korea switched to UT+9 in 1910 why did they also <br>switch to UT+9 in 1912?  If you could clarify this point I would appreciate it.<br><br>Thank you again.&nbsp;</p></div>
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