diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 7060f8d..323122d 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ In Development
     - Disable log coloration when stderr is not a terminal
     - Suppress noisy & irrelevant log messages from various dependencies
     - Log errors that cause 404 and 500 responses
+    - Use local timezone offset for log timestamps
 - Added breadcrumbs to HTML views of collections
 - `FAST_NOT_EXIST` components are now checked for case-insensitively
 - Add links to version & asset metadata to the web view
diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index e4e3a0f..dfb8e60 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -1597,6 +1597,15 @@ dependencies = [
  "libc",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "num_threads"
+version = "0.1.7"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "5c7398b9c8b70908f6371f47ed36737907c87c52af34c268fed0bf0ceb92ead9"
+dependencies = [
+ "libc",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "object"
 version = "0.32.2"
@@ -2479,7 +2488,9 @@ checksum = "c8248b6521bb14bc45b4067159b9b6ad792e2d6d754d6c41fb50e29fefe38749"
 dependencies = [
  "deranged",
  "itoa",
+ "libc",
  "num-conv",
+ "num_threads",
  "powerfmt",
  "serde",
  "time-core",
@@ -2669,6 +2680,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "sharded-slab",
  "smallvec",
  "thread_local",
+ "time",
  "tracing-core",
  "tracing-log",
 ]
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 1a95f35..7966879 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ tokio = { version = "1.36.0", features = ["macros", "net", "rt-multi-thread"] }
 tower = "0.4.13"
 tower-http = { version = "0.5.2", features = ["set-header", "trace"] }
 tracing = "0.1.40"
-tracing-subscriber = "0.3.18"
+tracing-subscriber = { version = "0.3.18", features = ["local-time", "time"] }
 url = { version = "2.5.0", features = ["serde"] }
 xml-rs = "0.8.19"
 
diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index 5e2e762..0885ce4 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ use std::sync::Arc;
 use tower::service_fn;
 use tower_http::{set_header::response::SetResponseHeaderLayer, trace::TraceLayer};
 use tracing::Level;
-use tracing_subscriber::{filter::Targets, prelude::*};
+use tracing_subscriber::{filter::Targets, fmt::time::OffsetTime, prelude::*};
 
 static STYLESHEET: &str = include_str!("dav/static/styles.css");
 
@@ -64,12 +64,16 @@ struct Arguments {
     title: String,
 }
 
-#[tokio::main]
-async fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
-    let args = Arguments::parse();
+// See
+// <https://docs.rs/tracing-subscriber/latest/tracing_subscriber/fmt/time/struct.OffsetTime.html#method.local_rfc_3339>
+// for an explanation of the main + #[tokio::main]run thing
+fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+    let timer =
+        OffsetTime::local_rfc_3339().context("failed to determine local timezone offset")?;
     tracing_subscriber::registry()
         .with(
             tracing_subscriber::fmt::layer()
+                .with_timer(timer)
                 .with_ansi(stderr().is_terminal())
                 .with_writer(stderr),
         )
@@ -82,6 +86,12 @@ async fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
                 .with_default(Level::INFO),
         )
         .init();
+    run()
+}
+
+#[tokio::main]
+async fn run() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
+    let args = Arguments::parse();
     let dandi = DandiClient::new(args.api_url)?;
     let zarrman = ZarrManClient::new()?;
     let templater = Templater::load()?;