The format can be set on the command line using -Djava.util.logging.SimpleFormatter.format="XXX"
.
Or it can be set like this programmatically:
static
{
System.setProperty("java.util.logging.SimpleFormatter.format", "%1$tF %1$tT.%1$tL %4$s %2$s %5$s%6$s%n");
}