diff --git a/caddy/caddymain/run.go b/caddy/caddymain/run.go
index 33151003c..163cbc848 100644
--- a/caddy/caddymain/run.go
+++ b/caddy/caddymain/run.go
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ func init() {
 	flag.StringVar(&certmagic.Default.Email, "email", "", "Default ACME CA account email address")
 	flag.DurationVar(&certmagic.HTTPTimeout, "catimeout", certmagic.HTTPTimeout, "Default ACME CA HTTP timeout")
 	flag.StringVar(&logfile, "log", "", "Process log file")
+	flag.BoolVar(&logTimestamps, "log-timestamps", true, "Enable timestamps for the process log")
 	flag.IntVar(&logRollMB, "log-roll-mb", 100, "Roll process log when it reaches this many megabytes (0 to disable rolling)")
 	flag.BoolVar(&logRollCompress, "log-roll-compress", true, "Gzip-compress rolled process log files")
 	flag.StringVar(&caddy.PidFile, "pidfile", "", "Path to write pid file")
@@ -86,6 +87,11 @@ func Run() {
 	caddy.OnProcessExit = append(caddy.OnProcessExit, certmagic.CleanUpOwnLocks)
 	certmagic.UserAgent = appName + "/" + cleanModVersion
 
+	if !logTimestamps {
+		// Disable timestamps for logging
+		log.SetFlags(0)
+	}
+
 	// Set up process log before anything bad happens
 	switch logfile {
 	case "stdout":
@@ -590,6 +596,7 @@ var (
 	envFile         string
 	fromJSON        bool
 	logfile         string
+	logTimestamps   bool
 	logRollMB       int
 	logRollCompress bool
 	revoke          string
diff --git a/caddyhttp/errors/errors.go b/caddyhttp/errors/errors.go
index 5e10b2d04..568bab87b 100644
--- a/caddyhttp/errors/errors.go
+++ b/caddyhttp/errors/errors.go
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ import (
 	"os"
 	"runtime"
 	"strings"
-	"time"
 
 	"github.com/caddyserver/caddy"
 	"github.com/caddyserver/caddy/caddyhttp/httpserver"
@@ -50,7 +49,7 @@ func (h ErrorHandler) ServeHTTP(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) (int, er
 	status, err := h.Next.ServeHTTP(w, r)
 
 	if err != nil {
-		errMsg := fmt.Sprintf("%s [ERROR %d %s] %v", time.Now().Format(timeFormat), status, r.URL.Path, err)
+		errMsg := fmt.Sprintf("[ERROR %d %s] %v", status, r.URL.Path, err)
 		if h.Debug {
 			// Write error to response instead of to log
 			w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "text/plain; charset=utf-8")
@@ -79,8 +78,7 @@ func (h ErrorHandler) errorPage(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, code int
 		errorPage, err := os.Open(pagePath)
 		if err != nil {
 			// An additional error handling an error... <insert grumpy cat here>
-			h.Log.Printf("%s [NOTICE %d %s] could not load error page: %v",
-				time.Now().Format(timeFormat), code, r.URL.String(), err)
+			h.Log.Printf("[NOTICE %d %s] could not load error page: %v", code, r.URL.String(), err)
 			httpserver.DefaultErrorFunc(w, r, code)
 			return
 		}
@@ -93,8 +91,7 @@ func (h ErrorHandler) errorPage(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, code int
 
 		if err != nil {
 			// Epic fail... sigh.
-			h.Log.Printf("%s [NOTICE %d %s] could not respond with %s: %v",
-				time.Now().Format(timeFormat), code, r.URL.String(), pagePath, err)
+			h.Log.Printf("[NOTICE %d %s] could not respond with %s: %v", code, r.URL.String(), pagePath, err)
 			httpserver.DefaultErrorFunc(w, r, code)
 		}
 
@@ -148,7 +145,7 @@ func (h ErrorHandler) recovery(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		file = file[pkgPathPos+len(delim):]
 	}
 
-	panicMsg := fmt.Sprintf("%s [PANIC %s] %s:%d - %v", time.Now().Format(timeFormat), r.URL.String(), file, line, rec)
+	panicMsg := fmt.Sprintf("[PANIC %s] %s:%d - %v", r.URL.String(), file, line, rec)
 	if h.Debug {
 		// Write error and stack trace to the response rather than to a log
 		var stackBuf [4096]byte
@@ -160,5 +157,3 @@ func (h ErrorHandler) recovery(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
 		h.errorPage(w, r, http.StatusInternalServerError)
 	}
 }
-
-const timeFormat = "02/Jan/2006:15:04:05 -0700"
diff --git a/caddyhttp/httpserver/logger.go b/caddyhttp/httpserver/logger.go
index e5c9ac027..577464adc 100644
--- a/caddyhttp/httpserver/logger.go
+++ b/caddyhttp/httpserver/logger.go
@@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ selectwriter:
 		}
 	}
 
-	l.Logger = log.New(l.writer, "", 0)
+	l.Logger = log.New(l.writer, "", log.Flags())
 
 	return nil
 
diff --git a/dist/init/linux-systemd/caddy.service b/dist/init/linux-systemd/caddy.service
index 07cfeb6ff..d636565e6 100644
--- a/dist/init/linux-systemd/caddy.service
+++ b/dist/init/linux-systemd/caddy.service
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ Group=www-data
 Environment=CADDYPATH=/etc/ssl/caddy
 
 ; Always set "-root" to something safe in case it gets forgotten in the Caddyfile.
-ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/caddy -log stdout -agree=true -conf=/etc/caddy/Caddyfile -root=/var/tmp
+ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/caddy -log stdout -log-timestamps=false -agree=true -conf=/etc/caddy/Caddyfile -root=/var/tmp
 ExecReload=/bin/kill -USR1 $MAINPID
 
 ; Use graceful shutdown with a reasonable timeout