velero backup create --from-schedule labels backup in local time

[jglick]

What steps did you take:

velero create schedule xxx '--schedule=@every 15m' --ttl 1h
# a couple hours later…
velero backup create --from-schedule xxx
velero get backup

What did you expect to happen:

To see a list of backups with the newly manually scheduled backup at the top, all with names based on UTC time of backup creation.

What happened instead:

NAME                 STATUS            ERRORS   WARNINGS   CREATED                         EXPIRES   STORAGE LOCATION   SELECTOR
xxx-20211025151320   PartiallyFailed   12       51         2021-10-25 11:13:20 -0400 EDT   48m       default            <none>
xxx-20211025145809   PartiallyFailed   34       0          2021-10-25 10:58:09 -0400 EDT   33m       default            <none>
xxx-20211025144309   PartiallyFailed   31       0          2021-10-25 10:43:09 -0400 EDT   18m       default            <none>
xxx-20211025142809   PartiallyFailed   21       0          2021-10-25 10:28:09 -0400 EDT   3m        default            <none>
xxx-20211025141309   Deleting          25       0          2021-10-25 10:13:09 -0400 EDT   11m ago   default            <none>
xxx-20211025112340   InProgress        0        0          2021-10-25 11:23:40 -0400 EDT   58m       default            <none>

You can see that the in-progress backup I just made is given a name based on the local time on my computer, whereas the regular backups made by the server process are labeled in UTC. Thus the manually created backup is displayed in an unnatural sort order.

Environment:

Client v1.7.0; server locally patched but recent (from #4242). EKS v1.21.2.

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[jglick]

Workaround:

TZ=UTC velero backup create --from-schedule xxx