diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 8606b4f0d66..610ce71b635 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "fnv",
  "gl_generator",
  "glutin",
+ "lazy_static",
  "libc",
  "log",
  "notify",
@@ -799,6 +800,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "libc",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "itoa"
+version = "0.4.8"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "b71991ff56294aa922b450139ee08b3bfc70982c6b2c7562771375cf73542dd4"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "itoa"
 version = "1.0.1"
@@ -1419,7 +1426,7 @@ version = "1.0.74"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "ee2bb9cd061c5865d345bb02ca49fcef1391741b672b54a0bf7b679badec3142"
 dependencies = [
- "itoa",
+ "itoa 1.0.1",
  "ryu",
  "serde",
 ]
@@ -1599,14 +1606,21 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "time"
-version = "0.1.43"
+version = "0.3.5"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "ca8a50ef2360fbd1eeb0ecd46795a87a19024eb4b53c5dc916ca1fd95fe62438"
+checksum = "41effe7cfa8af36f439fac33861b66b049edc6f9a32331e2312660529c1c24ad"
 dependencies = [
+ "itoa 0.4.8",
  "libc",
- "winapi 0.3.9",
+ "time-macros",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "time-macros"
+version = "0.2.3"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "25eb0ca3468fc0acc11828786797f6ef9aa1555e4a211a60d64cc8e4d1be47d6"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "toml"
 version = "0.5.8"
diff --git a/alacritty/Cargo.toml b/alacritty/Cargo.toml
index 26523e1c050..0f92f3cd810 100644
--- a/alacritty/Cargo.toml
+++ b/alacritty/Cargo.toml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ version = "0.1.0"
 [dependencies]
 clap = { version = "3.0.0", features = ["derive"] }
 log = { version = "0.4", features = ["std", "serde"] }
-time = "0.1.40"
+time = { version = "0.3.5", features = ["formatting", "local-offset", "macros"] }
 fnv = "1"
 serde = { version = "1", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_yaml = "0.8"
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ libc = "0.2"
 unicode-width = "0.1"
 bitflags = "1"
 dirs = "3.0.1"
+lazy_static = "1.4.0"
 
 [build-dependencies]
 gl_generator = "0.14.0"
diff --git a/alacritty/src/logging.rs b/alacritty/src/logging.rs
index 56ed4ab5020..ab555043f51 100644
--- a/alacritty/src/logging.rs
+++ b/alacritty/src/logging.rs
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ use std::{env, process};
 
 use glutin::event_loop::EventLoopProxy;
 use log::{self, Level, LevelFilter};
+use time::macros::format_description;
+use time::{OffsetDateTime, UtcOffset};
 
 use crate::cli::Options;
 use crate::event::{Event, EventType};
@@ -24,12 +26,20 @@ const ALACRITTY_LOG_ENV: &str = "ALACRITTY_LOG";
 const ALLOWED_TARGETS: [&str; 4] =
     ["alacritty_terminal", "alacritty_config_derive", "alacritty", "crossfont"];
 
+lazy_static! {
+    static ref LOCAL_TZ: UtcOffset = UtcOffset::current_local_offset().unwrap();
+}
+
 pub fn initialize(
     options: &Options,
     event_proxy: EventLoopProxy<Event>,
 ) -> Result<Option<PathBuf>, log::SetLoggerError> {
     log::set_max_level(options.log_level());
 
+    // LOCAL_TZ must be initialized before spawning any threads, otherwise the call will fail due
+    // to unsoundness of get/setenv in multi-threaded applications.
+    let _ = *LOCAL_TZ;
+
     let logger = Logger::new(event_proxy);
     let path = logger.file_path();
     log::set_boxed_logger(Box::new(logger))?;
@@ -128,7 +138,12 @@ impl log::Log for Logger {
 }
 
 fn create_log_message(record: &log::Record<'_>, target: &str) -> String {
-    let now = time::strftime("%F %T.%f", &time::now()).unwrap();
+    let now = OffsetDateTime::now_utc()
+        .to_offset(*LOCAL_TZ)
+        .format(format_description!(
+            "[year]-[month]-[day] [hour repr:24]:[minute]:[second].[subsecond digits:9]Z"
+        ))
+        .unwrap();
     let mut message = format!("[{}] [{:<5}] [{}] ", now, record.level(), target);
 
     // Alignment for the lines after the first new line character in the payload. We don't deal
diff --git a/alacritty/src/main.rs b/alacritty/src/main.rs
index 6a86fcb144c..d5b298862ae 100644
--- a/alacritty/src/main.rs
+++ b/alacritty/src/main.rs
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@ use log::info;
 #[cfg(windows)]
 use winapi::um::wincon::{AttachConsole, FreeConsole, ATTACH_PARENT_PROCESS};
 
+#[macro_use]
+extern crate lazy_static;
+
 use alacritty_terminal::tty;
 
 mod cli;