diff --git a/tools/regtesting/auto_regtest/cp2k_regtester.sh b/tools/regtesting/auto_regtest/cp2k_regtester.sh
index e7255059fc..3e3ebf39b2 100755
--- a/tools/regtesting/auto_regtest/cp2k_regtester.sh
+++ b/tools/regtesting/auto_regtest/cp2k_regtester.sh
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ fi
 # Script that should handle any PATH or LD_LIBRARY_PATH issues
 source ${regtestdir}/setup_environment.sh
 
-datetime=$(date +%F_%H-%M-%S)
+datetime=$(date --utc +%F_%H-%M-%S)
 date=${datetime%_*}
 time=${datetime#*_}
 
diff --git a/tools/regtesting/do_regtest b/tools/regtesting/do_regtest
index 3a7288a18c..9bae2e7a42 100755
--- a/tools/regtesting/do_regtest
+++ b/tools/regtesting/do_regtest
@@ -498,6 +498,8 @@ fi
 
 # from here failures are likely to be bugs in cp2k
 if [[ ${nobuild} != "nobuild" ]]; then
+   echo "----------------------------ARCH-file-------------------------------------"
+   cat ${dir_base}/${cp2k_dir}/arch/${ARCH}.${cp2k_version}
    echo "-------------------------compiling cp2k-----------------------------------"
    echo "${make} -j $((maxtasks)) ${ARCH_SPEC} VERSION=${cp2k_version}"
    echo "(make output is written to ${make_out})"