This problem was reported five months ago and fixed, but version 2.8.1 still has this issue.
Prev issue link:
Fix: 792d3aa
version 2.8.1 code:
https://github.com/celery/django-celery-beat/blob/v2.8.1/django_celery_beat/schedulers.py#L323
For some reason, it seems that this fix was lost or reverted.