How to convert eastern standard time to local time?

It looks like one of the date and time from an API and I retrieving from uses eastern standard time. I wanted to convert that into time. I was looking at this article, Converting Dates Across Time Zones Using ColdFusion And Java, and it was looking way to complicated for me. Wasn't there something simple in ColdFusion like the following?

<cfset localDatetime= DateConvert("utc2Local", easternDateTime)>