What you need is the strtotime() function. Changed date to gmdate, converting your servers time to GMT.
Filemtime() will return a unix timestamp based on the server's clock. Since you have user to gmt offset available, you must convert the unix timestamp to GMT and then into user's timszone as follows.
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