in reply to getting time local to a user supplied offset...

gmtime provides UTC. Feed it time() +/- the right number of seconds and you're done. 

# Untested

print 'enter gmt time offset: ';
$offset = <>; # sample input would be '-6' or '3', etc
($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday) = gmtime(time() +$offse
+t * 3600);

$offsettime = ''. gmtime(time() +$offset * 3600);

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Re: Re: getting time local to a user supplied offset...
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 21, 2003 at 00:41 UTC
    it sort of works, but its off by 6 hours...
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      You caught me while I discovered that I wanted gmtime(), rather than localtime().

      --Bob Niederman, http://bob-n.com
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        thats it, it works! its off by an hour cause of dst, but i figured id have to adjust for that anyway. thanks a bunch!
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