Time stamp and local time stamp

Dear sirs...
i am a little confused about the time stamp datatype and how to handle it in my applications. i want to display the time for every user in its time zone. so the fields in the database are timestamp with local time zone. is this correct?
i want it to be such that if one stores the time in USA time , the other can display that same data in UK time.
best regards

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Nearly correct since the Daylight saving may or may not be in effect which does depend on the date...I would simplify that to this:
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