[Answered ]-What is the correct way to convert Django date and time fields to current timezone?

If you want to manipulate time zones you need to be working with datetime objects. Create one with datetime.combine:

from datetime import datetime
from datetime.timezone import utc

dt = datetime.combine(self.date, self.time, utc)

At that point you have an aware datetime object and can convert it to another timezone, print it out, etc.