# Using other world times in a clock?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-other-world-times-in-a-clock/175879
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [January 18, 2006, 3:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-other-world-times-in-a-clock/175879 "2006-01-18T15:05:26Z")
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### Author: ![3stripe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/48db29/32.png) [@3stripe](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/3stripe)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2006, 3:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/using-other-world-times-in-a-clock/175879/1 "2006-01-18T15:05:26Z")

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Hello,

I’ve got a clock which needs to show UK and American time…

If I can get one to always show the correct UK time (not the time on your computer) then I can easily set the other one.

I though that .getUTCDate() might help but it is still set to the users system time. Is there another way to find GMT time?

Cheers,

James

PS. I found a clock script at [http://www.actionscript.org/actionscripts\_library/Server-side\_scripts/](http://www.actionscript.org/actionscripts_library/Server-side_scripts/) but it requires the timestamp to be passed as a variable (GMTtimer.swf?timestamp=\<?php /\* and here \*/ echo $timestamp; ?\>) which I want to avoid as it looks messy.