Best bet is to make the request on the talk page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Comparison_of_file_systems

Does that help?

- J

On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 5:55 PM, Blibbet <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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%29.aspx
>
> 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.
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject:     Re: [edk2] [ShellPkg] I think there is an issue in ls.
> Date:     Wed, 10 Jun 2015 18:38:58 -0700
> From:     Andrew Fish <[email protected]>
> To:     [email protected]
>
> > On Jun 10, 2015, at 6:33 PM, Carsey, Jaben <[email protected]>
> 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:[email protected]]
> >> Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 6:26 PM
> >> To: [email protected]
> >> 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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