Is there a way to request a feature to be added to Wikipedia? Is there
an issue tracking system to request new content?
Open source projects often have ticketing/issue tracking systems to tack
feature requests, in addition to developer-contributed features that
include patches. Here's a case where I see a need in the Wikipedia
content, but don't currently have time to address it, and am wondering
if there's any resources to submit this request to, if they have spare
cycles to work on it.
This page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems
needs a new column that shows if the file system uses UTC or local time
or some other time for it's files.
Below question is a thread from a firmware development mailing list,
UEFI firmware is reporting wrong dates in the UEFI Shell. The Apple
firmware guys are asking:
"I’m guessing more modern filesystems probably store the time in UTC?"
The above Wikipedia Comparison page is very good. If it had this data,
it would be better, and useful in this specific case (and probably other
software, not just below case), so the UEFI apps would get correct file
dates.
Unfortunately, I currently don't have time to research all of it at the
moment. Apparently, FAT, CDS (ISO9660), DVDs (OSTA UDF) use local, NTFS
uses UTC:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms724290%28v=vs.85…
This column needs data on (ZFS, Ext2-Ext4, FreeBSD's current file
systems, BTRFS, Apple HFS+ on-disk formats, and SMB/CIFS and NFS network
protocols), at least, to become useful ... of course data for all FSs
would be best. The data should be in the specs of these file systems, or
the source code of their [cloned] open source implementations, it just
takes a bit of time to track down the data from each FS's spec and
sources. There maybe a few cases where multiple FS implementations
return different TZ values, in which case I'd call that a bug. :-)
I'll try to create this if nobody else does, but probably not for a
while, and only for a half-dozen file systems. Access to live
implementations of these file systems and FS diagnostic tools would also
help, but not sure if that kind of data is useful for Wikipedia references.
Thanks.
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Subject: Re: [edk2] [ShellPkg] I think there is an issue in ls.
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2015 18:38:58 -0700
From: Andrew Fish <afish(a)apple.com>
To: edk2-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net
On Jun 10, 2015, at 6:33 PM, Carsey, Jaben
<jaben.carsey(a)intel.com> wrote:
Andrew,
I agree, that looks like an issue. Can you submit a patch with this
fixed?
Sorry don’t have time right now.
I will put this on the list of issues.
Thanks, I hit this issue in another location and look to see what the
shell did. Since the shell seemed to be doing the wrong thing I decided
to at least report it to the mailing list.
I’m guessing more modern filesystems probably store the time in UTC?
Thanks,
Andrew Fish
-Jaben
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Fish [mailto:afish@apple.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 6:26 PM
> To: edk2-devel(a)lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [edk2] [ShellPkg] I think there is an issue in ls.
> Importance: High
>
> Dear ShellPkg maintainer,
>
> I think there is an issue with the ls command. It does not use the
TImeZone,
> so it seems it is hard coded to assume that a
filesystem stores time
like FAT, in
> local time. The FAT driver always returns
EFI_UNSPECIFIED_TIMEZONE, which
> implies the values are local time. But what if a filesystem is
storing time in
UTC
> (EFI_TIME.TimeZone == 0)? it seems the current
path in the shell assumes
> EFI_UNSPECIFIED_TIMEZONE (thus all time is local time). I don’t think
this
> follows the UEFI spec. I think the correct
algorithm is:
>
> if FileSystemTime.TimeZone == EFI_UNSPECIFIED_TIMEZONE
> // This is the current path in the code
> Assume time is local time, and print it out
> else:
> // This is the missing path.
> Adjust the FileSystemTime.TimeZone for the System.TimeZone (and
> System.Daylight), thus display the time in local time.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andrew Fish
>
>
>
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