Is this along the right lines? England should be a fixed number of hours away from you, so if you do $time = time(); then do $time += or -= n*60*60 you should have your local time (give or take a few seconds). Then get your date using localtime.

<whisper>is this homework?</whisper> You may even be able to change locale, but I don't know anything about that.

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