diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 2d1d12374b0..ebe83001759 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -799,6 +799,12 @@ 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 +1425,7 @@ 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 +1605,21 @@ 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..0376828089a 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", "macros"] }
 fnv = "1"
 serde = { version = "1", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_yaml = "0.8"
diff --git a/alacritty/src/logging.rs b/alacritty/src/logging.rs
index 56ed4ab5020..3b476dbc78e 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;
 
 use crate::cli::Options;
 use crate::event::{Event, EventType};
@@ -128,7 +130,11 @@ 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()
+        .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