My recommendation for the quickest way to resolve it - don't try to set the timezone, since I discovered in the context of thinking about a test plan for another bug that there's no way to explicitly set the timezone _within_ the test code short of doing a lot of extensive mocking of Date or using the TZ environment variable. Instead, I suggest grabbing the current timezone, whatever it happens to be, and using that as part of setting up the start and end date values in the relevant test.
My recommendation for the quickest way to resolve it - don't try to set the timezone, since I discovered in the context of thinking about a test plan for another bug that there's no way to explicitly set the timezone _within_ the test code short of doing a lot of extensive mocking of Date or using the TZ environment variable. Instead, I suggest grabbing the current timezone, whatever it happens to be, and using that as part of setting up the start and end date values in the relevant test.