Something that's been on the wishlist for a while, would it be possible to have LASTUPDATE include a timestamp for the minor update?
Presently to determine the exact length of the update, you can use the LASTUPDATE of the first and last regions. For the Major this data is present in the regions.xml data dump. For minor, you must make these requests on your own, and save the relevant data locally, as this data is overwritten over the course of the major update.
This would be especially valuable in the data dumps for tools like Spyglass which use LASTUPDATE to determine the length of the update, permitting it to calculate these values without relying on previous usage, or depending on an external resource to provide them.
My preference would be that the data is provided as an XML attribute a la
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<LASTUPDATE minor="(minor update time)">(major update time)</LASTUPDATE>
So as to be backwards compatible with existing tools that may be poorly (or not at all) maintained, while still providing the data under the LASTUPDATE tag.