not seeing utc times in gcp

Using Django
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I develop on my Windows laptop running MySql 5.7. When I create an object in the db through django admin or my api, the times are all set to UTC. When I do the same thing on from a django server running on a centos instance in Google Cloud Platform using GCP database server, the times are all local (EDT as the vm and db instances are in us-east-4). settings.py are the same. Any help appreciated.

I can see the general trx log on Windows, but I cannot see it in GCP (don’t know how). I know what’s going in though because I can see it in the db after the insert is done.

Tx Dom

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What specifically are the timezone-related settings in your settings.py file?
(TIME_ZONE, and USE_TZ)

Can you connect an external client (using something like what’s described at https://cloud.google.com/sql/docs/mysql/connect-admin-ip) and look at the table contents directly to verify that what’s stored is stored as UTC?

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TIME_ZONE = UTC
USE_TZ = True

I’ve looked at tables in both databases and confirmed on my Windows laptop, UTC is stored. In the GCP database, I see local times. I connect with Squirrel through the cloud mysql proxy.

Tx for looking
Dom