of graffiti, tattoo, or other cultural mark with a signature style. Unintentional or incidental damage. Changes in health of living being. Risk evaluation of propagation of structural damage. Evaluation for restoration. Degradation due to effects of environmental exposure over time, including natural entropy (decline over time): Oxidation. Rain exposure. Abrasion from wind-driven sand. Weathering from environmental changes in temperature, such as caused by freeze-thaw cycles. Fugitive (i.e. no permanent) pigments in paintings or printed materials from exposure to ultraviolet light. Exposure to vibration, such as industrial processes are from vehicular traffic. General Basic general information about file comparison software. Compare features API / editor features Other features Some other features which did not fit in previous table Aspects What aspects can be / are compared? Time zone effects When files are transferred across time zones and between Microsoft FAT and NTFS file systems, the timestamp displayed by the same file may change, so that identical files with different storage histories are deemed different by a comparer that requires the timestamps to match. The difference is an exact number of quarters of an hour up to 95 (same minutes modulo 15 and seconds) if the file was transported across zones; there is also a one-hour difference within a single zone caused by the transition between standard time and daylight saving time (DST). Some, but not all, file comparison and synchronisation software can be configured to ignore the DST and time-zone differences. Software known to have daylight-saving compensation is marked in the Aspects table. See also File comparison File synchronization Comparison of file synchronization software List of disk cloning software Comparison of disk cloning software Comparison of hex editors References File comparison tools