diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 56b66539ce5..87f6a82bf43 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -11558,6 +11558,7 @@ version = "0.3.7"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "004cbc98f30fa233c61a38bc77e96a9106e65c88f2d3bef182ae952027e5753d"
 dependencies = [
+ "itoa 1.0.1",
  "libc",
  "num_threads",
 ]
diff --git a/relays/utils/Cargo.toml b/relays/utils/Cargo.toml
index 7ca5e77cd95..7996ba72f87 100644
--- a/relays/utils/Cargo.toml
+++ b/relays/utils/Cargo.toml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ log = "0.4.11"
 num-traits = "0.2"
 serde_json = "1.0"
 sysinfo = "0.15"
-time = "0.3"
+time = { version = "0.3", features = ["formatting", "local-offset", "std"] }
 thiserror = "1.0.26"
 
 # Bridge dependencies
diff --git a/relays/utils/src/initialize.rs b/relays/utils/src/initialize.rs
index 8c13a4d61cb..ad69a766e62 100644
--- a/relays/utils/src/initialize.rs
+++ b/relays/utils/src/initialize.rs
@@ -29,15 +29,21 @@ pub fn initialize_relay() {
 
 /// Initialize Relay logger instance.
 pub fn initialize_logger(with_timestamp: bool) {
+	let format = time::format_description::parse(
+		"[year]-[month]-[day] \
+		[hour repr:24]:[minute]:[second] [offset_hour sign:mandatory]",
+	)
+	.expect("static format string is valid");
+
 	let mut builder = env_logger::Builder::new();
 	builder.filter_level(log::LevelFilter::Warn);
 	builder.filter_module("bridge", log::LevelFilter::Info);
 	builder.parse_default_env();
 	if with_timestamp {
 		builder.format(move |buf, record| {
-			let timestamp = time::OffsetDateTime::try_now_local()
-				.unwrap_or_else(|_| time::OffsetDateTime::now_utc())
-				.format("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %z");
+			let timestamp = time::OffsetDateTime::now_local()
+				.unwrap_or_else(|_| time::OffsetDateTime::now_utc());
+			let timestamp = timestamp.format(&format).unwrap_or_else(|_| timestamp.to_string());
 
 			let log_level = color_level(record.level());
 			let log_target = color_target(record.target());