Fair enough. But if you have no idea how the moving parts of your system work together, there’s not likely to be much help to found here.
Maybe your mystery counter gets updated by some rule depending on Items you haven’t got working yet. We can’t say, you could find out, you might just put it off as the least of worries.
Go one step at a time - what’s your major obstacle right now?
Logs are timestamped according to Java time clock. openHABs clock is derived from that, but setting openHABs timezone does not get fed backwards to Java. Set your Java timezone/locale.