Inconsistent format for timestamps: request 24 hour clock and TZ

The date command shows now: Tue Feb 23 12:54:46 AM UTC 2021
A recent log message shows
[12:42:23.180] Processing job 'application' (2) in state Running
Maybe dotnet/crank is following some linux convention on the host, but I would like the timestamps on all the log messages to contain the Timezone, and, if possible, use a 24 hour clock

I'm trying to correlate the entries in the ubuntu kernel logfile /var/log/kern.log with the timestamps on the output of crank. The former appears to always use a 24 hour clock (+msecs), so remembering to compensate for different formats (and timezones) is problematic.