expanded Time/Date functions

I've been working on a script that uses the time and date.
I noticed that the functions to get the Time give it in PST, whereas those used for the Date give it in UTC. This is very silly! I'm having to correct the date based on what time of day it is to display the correct current date in the server's locale.

It would be nice to have a suite of functions to give us similar abilities to time(), ctime(), et al in C.

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