Messages from ftpd in /var/log/messages are timestamped with UTC local time. I don't know whether this is a wuftpd or a syslogd issue, so I'll just file it here.
It's because wu-ftpd chroot()s for anonymous and guest users, and there's no /etc/localtime file in the chroot environments.
I had the same problem. To fix it, copy /etc/locatime to the /ftpserverroot/etc/localtime. Presto-chango ...
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 30367 ***
*** Bug 53443 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***