How to set timestamps on GMT/UTC on Python logging?

From the python 3 docs:

import time

class UTCFormatter(logging.Formatter):
    converter = time.gmtime

https://docs.python.org/3/howto/logging-cookbook.html#formatting-times-using-utc-gmt-via-configuration

Just setting logging.Formatter.converter = time.gmtime is ineffective for me in Python 2.5.

So I created a child class with it set, and use that in place of logging.Formatter:

class UTCFormatter(logging.Formatter):
    converter = time.gmtime

logging.Formatter.converter = time.gmtime

(documented in the docstring of logging.Formatter.formatTime)

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