Misunderstanding of storing date-time(in UTC) in laravel base?

Question

Laravel

Good day.
Set for model

protected $dates = [
        'created_at',
        'updated_at',
        'arrivalDate',
        'dateOfDeparture',
    ];

In the UserFactory (for the seeder) set the values

'arrivalDate' => '2019-05-28 23:31:19',
        'dateOfDeparture' => '2019-05-28 23:31:19',

screenshot from database

created_at and updated_at are converted to UTC (relative to my time), but my fields are not..
Am I doing something wrong? Or how is it supposed to work? The project is clean (I fill the first table).

Answer 1

How does he know what timezone your LINES are in (these are not dates, not even close)?
created_at and updated_at are created by a regular DateTime already in the required time zone, and are not converted (and should not be).
Do it in UserFactory 'arrival_date' => now()and you will be happy.