Re: slickest way to find out local time zone offset in pure lua?

[Robert Raschke <rrlua@...>]

Norman Ramsey writes:
> I'm sure this question has come up many times, but the way I'm doing
> it seems clunky, and I hope someone here has a solution that looks sweet:
> using pure Lua, how can I compute the time difference between local time
> and UCT (sometimes known as universal time or Greenwich Mean Time)?

Using http://luaforge.net/projects/date/ , which is pure Lua:

require "date"
print(date():getbias())


Robby