Automatic timezone conversion for aware datetime values

[muhammedabad]

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It seems like datetime values that are timezone aware are not converted to the default timezone by the serializer, even when USE_TZ is set to True. Is there any way around this to prevent me doing this conversion manually on the client side ?

[rpkilby]

Hi @muhammedabad - this seems to be a duplicate of #3732. If not, could you provide more detail as to what the actual and expected behavior are?