wrong timezone for zoho.currenttime

wrong timezone for zoho.currenttime

I'm sorry I need to ask this, I've searched the forums without finding an answer to my problem.

I have one of fields = zoho.currenttime upon update. It works fine, but it displays the time as GMT-8 which is incorrect. I'm in EST which is GMT-5. I've set this in my locale for my account, but it doesn't seem to make a difference. I've even changed it to a GMT-2 locale to try and compensate, but to no avail.

Clearly, I'm missing something. Help please!

I suppose I could just set my field to = currenttime+'3H'
is that what i should do?