Andrew,

I agree, that looks like an issue.  Can you submit a patch with this fixed?  I 
will put this on the list of issues.

-Jaben

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Andrew Fish [mailto:af...@apple.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 6:26 PM
>To: edk2-devel@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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