Getting the correct time on Raspberry-Pi

I'm trying to get the correct datestamp in a logfile for Raspberry-Pi for a
server task.

The task runs under supervisord with root permissions.

I modified /root/.profile and added TZ='Australia/Sydney'; export TZ

However, in Python, the logging/task doesn't see dates with the correct
timezone delta added.

How can I get this to work?
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