Hey,
Thanks for the patches! All have been applied to the main repo, except for the local-time one. (Incidentally, my efforts to fix/merge/extend local-time for use with postmodern have more or less ceased -- I came across some very hairy problems, and I'm not currently doing anything that would benefit from this work, so motivation ran out.)
The separate repo is perfectly fine, as long as you don't go promoting it as a 'better alternative' or something, but seeing how little noise you usually make about your software, I doubt that that will be a problem.
Cheers, Marijn