10g, timezones, last 15 minutes (and more) and prompts

We have a requirement to allow the user to select a time range (last 15 minutes, last 30 minutes, last 60...up to last 48 hours) and the data will be displayed for that time range.
The timestamp for the data is stored in local time (clock time without any timezone information) column and UTC column.
The data is also tied to a geo location where the location time zone is part of the data.
The user enters the geo location in one prompt field.
We then need to have the location timezone, which we can get from the database, to populate the date/time ranges when the user selects another prompt field with "Last 15 Minutes", "Last 30 Minutes", etc. as the values.
We can model new tables/views from the current data (star schema with location and time dimensions), so if there is a data model approach, we can use that.
Any guidance is greatly appreciated by this OBIEE Newbiee...

Here's part of the answer.
1) Let's keep it simple. Putting text in the prompt makes extracting the "real" data unnecessarily more difficult on you. So make the label of the prompt something like: "Select time in minutes ago to display data: "
2) Now for the prompt, you can just include the numbers, 15, 30, etc. I'm sure you can build this prompt. It's not hard. Save it to a PV named pv_TimeRange
3) Now for the filter. On the Time_column, click on filter button and convert the filter to SQL.
4) Enter the following:
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