Apache application and logs are showing the wrong time zone

Issue

• Apache gets the wrong timezone. The system time as well as the time of the /var/log/messages file is correct but still apache log files showing wrong time zone.

# date
Thu Oct 23 15:03:15 CEST 2014
# tail -f /var/log/httpd/ssl_access_log
localhost -  [23/Oct/2014:08:03:21 -0500] "GET /foo HTTP/1.1" 200 43
# tail -f /var/log/messages
Oct 23 15:03:40 localhost ido2db: IDO2DB proxy stats (p=0x26076a0): left=642 bytes, right=0 bytes; iostats=367921955 bytes

• What could be the cause of the issue ?