Re: os.time() and timezones

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Rena <hyperhacker@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ouch.) Does Lua provide a way to turn a table into a Unix timestamp
> under the assumption that the table specifies GMT, not the local
> timezone?

I use this kind of logic to find the timezone offset in pl.Date:

        local t = os.time()
        local ut = os.date('!*t',t)
        local lt = os.date('*t',t)
        thour = lt.hour - ut.hour
        tmin = lt.min - ut.min

If this is misguided I would certainly like to know!

steve d.