Module development and code questions

I am asked how to create a module which presents all the book contributers, just like http://drupal.org/node/14205.

I think it would be possible to get the information by finding the book root node, and then traverse it and all childnodes an extract the uid from node.

But how do I actually include this in within an actual book. I mean, I must create a special contributor module. That is simple enough, but does it have to mimic book module, in order to be incorporated into books, or...?

hello, I'm working in a module, and I have to store dates and times of some events, but I want to store the UTC instead of the local time, because I want to show the events in the timezone of the users....

There is any function in drupal for timezone conversion?

Is the forum module bust in 4.6? Ive been building a site and have just started on the forum section and have a couple of rather major problems:

- forum posts are promoted to the front page by default
- forum posts are not displayed in the forums

Is the forum known to work in 4.6?

Drupal 4.7:
I am making a module which specifies a new node type. But I do not wish this node type to have a link in the "create content" page. I did not include a hook_menu function at all, however my new node type still shows up on the "create content" page.

How can I suppress this link?
Thanks!

Hi,
I have worked hard to produce a working module, which is great from my point of view. As I wanted to share it, I was aiming to create a project on this website. I tried once to fill fields that I was able to, without any success of creation. I have no idea of what was wrong, but it didn't work.

I was stumbling through the handbook looking for info on using the CVS. I thought I'd examined most topics, and finally tried the "Bazaar-NG" topic.
http://drupal.org/node/45368

So if this is the CVS software, what is ViewCVS? Are they the same? Are they alternatives?