@AmpBenzScientist UTC is a timezone, and timezone comprises just a small part of the full date-time string, which is governed by the system locale settings.
Most Linux distrubutions manage this using the `locale` program.
This program allows the user (or sysadmin) to use different locales for date/time strings, messages, etc., or the same locale for everything.
It's not as technical as it sounds, and I don't mean to scare anyone off. Plus, I'm hardly a professional myself.
I appreciate you taking the time to comment, though, makes it feel less lonely here in cyberspace ;-)