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Django DateTimeField from form to UTC

I have a small Django application with a form that saves some data in a database.

Here is the form:

class SomeForm(forms.Form):
    time = forms.DateTimeField()
...

And the view where I save it:

class AccountAddIncome(View):
    def save(self, form):
        model = Model(
            time=form.cleaned_data['time']
        )
        model.save()

    def post(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
        form = SomeForm(request.POST)
        if form.is_valid():
            self.save(form)
            return redirect(self.success_url)
        else:
            ...

My problem is that the Django administrator says: "Note: you are 1 hour ahead of server time."
The command dateon my Ubuntu (server) says exactly the same date as my computer.

But when I save this object to the database and make the following query:

Model.objects.filter(time__lt=timezone.now())

django does not list a previously saved model for an hour. If I go to the administrator and set the time back one hour, django'll show this object.

So my question is, what is the best way to manage datetime objects in django?

I want to save everything in UTC, but I cannot convert this datetime from form to UTC.

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settings.py Django

TIME_ZONE = timezone.now()

from django.utils import timezone


TIME_ZONE = timezone.now()

# TIME_ZONE = 'UTC'
# USE_I18N = True
# USE_L10N = True
# USE_TZ = True

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