in reply to Finding a remote time

Is there a way I can fool localtime() into giving me the EST time or any other idea for how to get the current EST time from a CET-based machine?

DateTime.pm makes this trivial.

$ perl -MDateTime -le 'print DateTime->now(time_zone => "EST")'
2006-07-17T04:37:59

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