how to filter datetime by day in django with timezone utc aware?

the datetime objects im trying to filter are 2024-10-26 00:49:34.131805 in the database, which is 9pm in my country. what happens is that when im trying to filter by day (created_at__day=timezone.now().day) it returns day 26, which is ok, but django translates them to the correct timezone (9pm the previous day) when filtering and ends up mismatching values

what i need to do?

settings.py

TIME_ZONE = 'America/Sao_Paulo'

USE_I18N = True

USE_TZ = True

models.py

created_at = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)

query

day = timezone.now().day
filter = Model.objects.filter(created_at__day=day)

this is what i tried

date = timezone.now()
filter = Model.objects.filter(created_at__date=date)

and that worked…
but i really wanted to filter just by day. does django provide something or am i doing something wrong?

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