diff -ur vsftpd-2.2.2.orig/logging.c vsftpd-2.2.2/logging.c
--- vsftpd-2.2.2.orig/logging.c	2009-10-19 05:24:23.000000000 +0200
+++ vsftpd-2.2.2/logging.c	2010-02-11 20:44:48.000000000 +0100
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@
   long delta_sec;
   enum EVSFLogEntryType what = (enum EVSFLogEntryType) p_sess->log_type;
   /* Date - vsf_sysutil_get_current_date updates cached time */
-  str_alloc_text(p_str, vsf_sysutil_get_current_date());
+  str_alloc_text(p_str, vsf_sysutil_get_current_date(tunable_use_localtime));
   str_append_char(p_str, ' ');
   /* Transfer time (in seconds) */
   delta_sec = vsf_sysutil_get_time_sec() - p_sess->log_start_sec;
@@ -259,7 +259,7 @@
   if (!tunable_syslog_enable)
   {
     /* Date - vsf_sysutil_get_current_date updates cached time */
-    str_append_text(p_str, vsf_sysutil_get_current_date());
+    str_append_text(p_str, vsf_sysutil_get_current_date(tunable_use_localtime));
     /* Pid */
     str_append_text(p_str, " [pid ");
     str_append_ulong(p_str, vsf_sysutil_getpid());
diff -ur vsftpd-2.2.2.orig/sysutil.c vsftpd-2.2.2/sysutil.c
--- vsftpd-2.2.2.orig/sysutil.c	2009-11-12 03:03:19.000000000 +0100
+++ vsftpd-2.2.2/sysutil.c	2010-02-11 20:45:23.000000000 +0100
@@ -2577,14 +2577,18 @@
 }
 
 const char*
-vsf_sysutil_get_current_date(void)
+vsf_sysutil_get_current_date(int use_localtime)
 {
   static char datebuf[64];
   time_t curr_time;
   const struct tm* p_tm;
   int i = 0;
   curr_time = vsf_sysutil_get_time_sec();
-  p_tm = localtime(&curr_time);
+  if (!use_localtime) {  
+    p_tm = gmtime(&curr_time);
+  } else {
+    p_tm = localtime(&curr_time);
+  }
   if (strftime(datebuf, sizeof(datebuf), "%a %b!%d %H:%M:%S %Y", p_tm) == 0)
   {
     die("strftime");
diff -ur vsftpd-2.2.2.orig/sysutil.h vsftpd-2.2.2/sysutil.h
--- vsftpd-2.2.2.orig/sysutil.h	2009-11-12 01:48:37.000000000 +0100
+++ vsftpd-2.2.2/sysutil.h	2010-02-11 20:44:48.000000000 +0100
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@
 void vsf_sysutil_make_session_leader(void);
 void vsf_sysutil_reopen_standard_fds(void);
 void vsf_sysutil_tzset(void);
-const char* vsf_sysutil_get_current_date(void);
+const char* vsf_sysutil_get_current_date(int use_localtime);
 void vsf_sysutil_qsort(void* p_base, unsigned int num_elem,
                        unsigned int elem_size,
                        int (*p_compar)(const void *, const void *));