Time is showing UTC, how do I offset?

["Gerald Magnuson" <gmagnuson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm brand spankin' new to web and PHP.
On my "hello world" page I am trying to get the date and time to
properly format.

I only have the UTC time showing, even if I try the switches for time
zones (e, O) the time won't change. We are CST (which is -0600).

Do I need to have some value in my config ?


Thanks

Gerald