This in emerge.log was distracting me since I realized the 1-hour shift hier in CET+1: 1580674702: Started emerge on: Feb 02, 2020 20:18:21 1580674702: *** emerge --verbose-conflicts --nospinner --tree --autounmask=n --autounmask-keep-masks --color=n --complete-graph --with-bdeps=y --quiet-build=y --ver bose --config sys-libs/timezone-data 1580674703: *** terminating. 1580674712: Started emerge on: Feb 02, 2020 21:18:32 IMO the human readable timestamp should be either in UTC or should have the TZ too.