Column default value persisted to the table

Question

I am currently using a Column that has the following signature:

Column(\'my_column\', DateTime, default=datetime.datetime.utcnow)

I am

Answer 1

If you wanted to insert UTC time you would have to do something like this:

from sqlalchemy import text
...
created = Column(DateTime,
                 server_default=text("(now() at time zone 'utc')"),
                 nullable=False)