gmdate and mktime returning wrong date

[lemist]

my server is in Pacific time (U.S.), so I wanted to get it to print my time, so I tried using:
$a = gmdate("g", mktime(-6));
print(gmdate("a:i:s a"));

I'm in central time (U.S.)
this is only returning a time that is 2 hours back, I believe my code is right, any ideas?

[lemist]

i meant
$a = gmdate("g", mktime(-6));
print(gmdate("$a:i:s a"));

i put a, instead of $a, but that was just a typo on the forum, i still need help.

[jsagara]

print "local time: " . date("h:i:s A") . "<br>\n";
$pacific = mktime();
$threeHrs = 3 60 60;
$central = $pacific + $threeHrs;
print "Central time: " . date("g:i:s A", $central) . "<br>\n";

Get pacific time in seconds.
Add three (or whatever - I don't know what the Central time zone offset is) hours in seconds to pacific time.
Display the new Central time.

Not very elegant, sorry.

[Anon]

i used
<?php echo gmdate("g:i a",mktime(4)); ?>
and it seemed to work for me, i also am in the central time zone.