[Python] Why do i keep getting UTC time zone even when Django settings is configured...

I'm not sure why the datetime response is always one hour behind (UTC)

Django settings configuration

LANGUAGE_CODE = "en-us"
TIME_ZONE = "Africa/Lagos"
USE_I18N = True
USE_L10N = True
USE_TZ = True
DATE_FORMAT = "F j, Y"
SITE_ID = 1


from django.utils import timezone
timezone.now()

response:
datetime.datetime(2022, 7, 23, 13, 58, 6, 739601, tzinfo=<UTC>)


You can see that the time zone info is UTC

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