now() is an hour off

I had this same problem and found a rather quick fix for it despite the hoops Adobe recommends.

First, go into CF administrator and verify the Java VM version CF is using in CF system information.

It should be above 1.3 for the following to work, otherwise you'll be forced to upgrade your JVM in the link below.

http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/447/d2ab4470.html

Next, go to the link and scroll down to the Alternative Solution - Sun JVM Hot Fix section and

read the instructions.  next, go to this link: http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp#timezone

and download the updater utility for Java (you will need to create an account with them to get the download).

Once downloaded, unzip the file in a temp folder on the CF server, then follow the instructions found

at this link: http://java.sun.com/javase/tzupdater_README.html

However, you will need to browse to the JVM used by ColdFusion, which is generally found in the

runtime/jre/bin folder to update its JVM engine.  example command shell command will look like this:

[drive path to CF]/runtime/jre/bin/java -jar [drive path to updater]/tzupdater.jar -u

you will need to restart the CF Server service afterwards for this to take effect.

then run a test CFM page using Now() to see the result