<<Not quite. It returns UTC, as reported by the OS, adjusted by the
offset
        specified in the TZ environment variable. But the offset calculation
only
        works properly if
        1)      TZ is properly set, and
2)      tzset() is called before any of the time-using library functions>>


Correction: time() returns UTC, which is then typically fed to things like
localtime() or strftime(), and *they* do the TZ offset thing. Sorry for the
confusion.

Steve