formatting date/time in php

[parkerproject]

i know this might sound easy.i have been trying to format date and time in my project.
1. EST(GMT-5:00)
2. date on my system that is my laptop

below are the two codes i have used,but is not accurate as i want it to be;

gmdate("h:i:s A");//EST(GMT-5:00)
date("M,d,Y"); //date on my system 

i know am wrong somewhere but can'figure it out.can someone help me.

cheers

[QMonkey]

gmdate will give you Greenwich Mean Time. I can't figure out from what you said just what you want. Two dates?

[parkerproject]

yes i want to format the date in EST and also a separate code for formatting time to the time on my sytem.so two separate things