title: How do I change the zone offset for a time in Ruby on Rails?
body: <p>I have a variable foo that contains a time, lets say 4pm today, but the zone offset is wrong, i.e. it is in the wrong time zone. How do I change the time zone?</p>
  
  <p>When I print it I get</p>
  
  <pre><code>Fri Jun 26 07:00:00 UTC 2009
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So there is no offset, and I would like to set the offset to -4 or Eastern Standard Time.</p>
  
  <p>I would expect to be able to just set the offset as a property of the Time object, but that doesn't seem to be available?</p>