diff --git a/smartmontools/ChangeLog b/smartmontools/ChangeLog
index d8e52cbb7fe991065e5396e37c5ec5844e33703d..4e5c365e16de293dc62c2911cfa80b4ea7f6d519 100644
--- a/smartmontools/ChangeLog
+++ b/smartmontools/ChangeLog
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ $Id$
 
 2022-03-04  Christian Franke  <franke@computer.org>
 
+	smartd.8.in: Attribute logs use local time since smartmontools 7.1.
+
 	smartctl.8.in, smartd.conf.5.in, update-smart-drivedb.8.in:
 	Remove EXPERIMENTAL notes for features added before 7.2.
 
diff --git a/smartmontools/smartd.8.in b/smartmontools/smartd.8.in
index 201ef01530e6a227865c4800763945e0bc1bca03..e4351dc78891a25f84519cab9f70f4a0ed3f3486 100644
--- a/smartmontools/smartd.8.in
+++ b/smartmontools/smartd.8.in
@@ -187,7 +187,8 @@ At each check cycle attributes are logged as a line of semicolon separated
 triplets of the form "attribute-ID;attribute-norm-value;attribute-raw-value;".
 For SCSI devices error counters and temperature recorded in the form
 "counter-name;counter-value;".
-Each line is led by a date string of the form "yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM:SS" (in UTC).
+Each line is led by a date string of the form "yyyy-mm-dd HH:MM:SS"
+(in local time).
 .Sp
 .\" %IF ENABLE_ATTRIBUTELOG
 If this option is not specified, attribute information is written to files