diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 1774d37b..ce36889a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -1,6 +1,11 @@
 🚀 Changelog
 ============
 
+0.5.1 (2024-04-02)
+------------------
+
+- Fix ``LocalSystemDateTime.now()`` not setting the correct offset (#104)
+
 0.5.0 (2024-03-21)
 ------------------
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index c68cb6e5..d252a819 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "whenever"
-version = "0.5.0"
+version = "0.5.1"
 description = "Sensible and typesafe datetimes"
 authors = ["Arie Bovenberg <a.c.bovenberg@gmail.com>"]
 license = "MIT"
diff --git a/src/whenever/__init__.py b/src/whenever/__init__.py
index 6e142303..931c6485 100644
--- a/src/whenever/__init__.py
+++ b/src/whenever/__init__.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 #   - It saves some overhead
 from __future__ import annotations
 
-__version__ = "0.5.0"
+__version__ = "0.5.1"
 
 import re
 import sys
@@ -3492,7 +3492,7 @@ def __init__(
     @classmethod
     def now(cls) -> LocalSystemDateTime:
         """Create an instance from the current time"""
-        return cls._from_py_unchecked(_datetime.now())
+        return cls._from_py_unchecked(_datetime.now().astimezone(None))
 
     def canonical_format(self, sep: Literal[" ", "T"] = "T") -> str:
         return self._py_dt.isoformat(sep)
diff --git a/tests/test_local_datetime.py b/tests/test_local_datetime.py
index aa9645b4..a17a8a15 100644
--- a/tests/test_local_datetime.py
+++ b/tests/test_local_datetime.py
@@ -617,6 +617,8 @@ def test_from_timestamp():
     with pytest.raises((OSError, OverflowError)):
         LocalSystemDateTime.from_timestamp(1_000_000_000_000_000_000)
 
+    assert LocalSystemDateTime.from_timestamp(0).offset == hours(-5)
+
 
 @local_nyc_tz()
 def test_repr():
@@ -660,7 +662,8 @@ def test_wrong_tzinfo(self):
 @local_nyc_tz()
 def test_now():
     now = LocalSystemDateTime.now()
-    py_now = py_datetime.now(ZoneInfo("America/New_York")).replace(tzinfo=None)
+    assert now.offset == hours(-4)
+    py_now = py_datetime.now(ZoneInfo("America/New_York"))
     assert py_now - now.py_datetime() < timedelta(seconds=1)