diff --git a/benchmarks/datetime.js b/benchmarks/datetime.js
index 39d6bf07..5def68fa 100644
--- a/benchmarks/datetime.js
+++ b/benchmarks/datetime.js
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ function runDateTimeSuite() {
     const dt = DateTime.now();
 
     suite
-      .add("DateTime.local", () => {
+      .add("DateTime.now", () => {
         DateTime.now();
       })
       .add("DateTime.fromObject with locale", () => {
@@ -18,6 +18,9 @@ function runDateTimeSuite() {
       .add("DateTime.local with numbers", () => {
         DateTime.local(2017, 5, 15);
       })
+      .add("DateTime.local with numbers and zone", () => {
+        DateTime.local(2017, 5, 15, 11, 7, 35, { zone: "America/New_York" });
+      })
       .add("DateTime.fromISO", () => {
         DateTime.fromISO("1982-05-25T09:10:11.445Z");
       })
diff --git a/src/datetime.js b/src/datetime.js
index 9472cb53..06c8b775 100644
--- a/src/datetime.js
+++ b/src/datetime.js
@@ -487,7 +487,9 @@ export default class DateTime {
       if (unchanged) {
         [c, o] = [config.old.c, config.old.o];
       } else {
-        const ot = zone.offset(this.ts);
+        // If an offset has been passed and we have not been called from
+        // clone(), we can trust it and avoid the offset calculation.
+        const ot = isNumber(config.o) && !config.old ? config.o : zone.offset(this.ts);
         c = tsToObj(this.ts, ot);
         invalid = Number.isNaN(c.year) ? new Invalid("invalid input") : null;
         c = invalid ? null : c;