This has never come up before because my server happens to be in the same time zone I am. How would I go about reformatting the reported date from a UNIX server to show the correct time / date in a specified time zone? In my programs I generally use 
use POSIX qw(strftime);
 $today_date = strftime "%m/%d/%Y %T %Z", localtime;

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I have read through the perl docs and my head is spinning. I really don't understand much about the localtime function I'm hoping there is an easy method other than just subtracting the hours from the hour value and then have to figure out if going back that many hours actually changes the date. Specifically I'm looking to have the time / date displayed for GMT -3 instead of EST Thanks in advance, -- Brian

In reply to Display the time / date for different time zones by Gryphaan

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