Events Created By Apex Respects DST

For my own edification, I wanted to confirm that Apex in Salesforce is capable of automatically adjusting for DST based on the user's local time zone.

The scenario: As a user in the America/New_York time zone, when I create an event using Apex for July 4, 2015 (EDT) at 9:00 AM and another event for December 25, 2015 (EST) at 9:00 AM, I expect the following:

• Both events should appear in the UI as starting at 9:00 AM on my calendar
• The UTC start time for the July 4 event should be 13:00
• The UTC start time for the December 25 event should be 14:00, which accounts for the end of Daylight Savings Time

The following code confirms the expected behavior: