diff --git a/api.rst b/api.rst
index 4605bd3..1da1898 100644
--- a/api.rst
+++ b/api.rst
@@ -15,72 +15,60 @@ a json blob with a bunch of status info. For example:
 
     $ curl -sS http://localhost:8000/status
     {
-      "rates_5min": {
-        "warc_bytes_per_sec": 0.0,
-        "urls_per_sec": 0.0,
-        "actual_elapsed": 277.2983281612396
-      },
-      "version": "2.4b2.dev174",
-      "load": 0.0,
-      "seconds_behind": 0.0,
-      "threads": 100,
-      "warc_bytes_written": 0,
+      "role": "warcprox",
+      "version": "2.4b3.dev189",
+      "host": "ayutla.local",
+      "address": "127.0.0.1",
       "port": 8000,
+      "pid": 60555,
+      "threads": 100,
+      "active_requests": 1,
+      "unaccepted_requests": 0,
+      "load": 0.0,
+      "queued_urls": 0,
+      "queue_max_size": 500,
+      "urls_processed": 0,
+      "warc_bytes_written": 0,
+      "start_time": "2018-10-30T20:15:19.929861Z",
+      "rates_1min": {
+        "actual_elapsed": 61.76024103164673,
+        "urls_per_sec": 0.0,
+        "warc_bytes_per_sec": 0.0
+      },
+      "rates_5min": {
+        "actual_elapsed": 1.7602601051330566,
+        "urls_per_sec": 0.0,
+        "warc_bytes_per_sec": 0.0
+      },
+      "rates_15min": {
+        "actual_elapsed": 1.7602710723876953,
+        "urls_per_sec": 0.0,
+        "warc_bytes_per_sec": 0.0
+      },
+      "earliest_still_active_fetch_start": "2018-10-30T20:15:21.691467Z",
+      "seconds_behind": 0.001758,
       "postfetch_chain": [
         {
-          "queued_urls": 0,
-          "processor": "SkipFacebookCaptchas"
+          "processor": "DedupLoader",
+          "queued_urls": 0
         },
         {
-          "queued_urls": 0,
-          "processor": "BatchTroughLoader"
+          "processor": "WarcWriterProcessor",
+          "queued_urls": 0
         },
         {
-          "queued_urls": 0,
-          "processor": "WarcWriterProcessor"
+          "processor": "DedupDb",
+          "queued_urls": 0
         },
         {
-          "queued_urls": 0,
-          "processor": "BatchTroughStorer"
+          "processor": "StatsProcessor",
+          "queued_urls": 0
         },
         {
-          "queued_urls": 0,
-          "processor": "RethinkStatsProcessor"
-        },
-        {
-          "queued_urls": 0,
-          "processor": "CrawlLogger"
-        },
-        {
-          "queued_urls": 0,
-          "processor": "TroughFeed"
-        },
-        {
-          "queued_urls": 0,
-          "processor": "RunningStats"
+          "processor": "RunningStats",
+          "queued_urls": 0
         }
-      ],
-      "queue_max_size": 500,
-      "role": "warcprox",
-      "queued_urls": 0,
-      "active_requests": 1,
-      "host": "wbgrp-svc405.us.archive.org",
-      "rates_15min": {
-        "warc_bytes_per_sec": 0.0,
-        "urls_per_sec": 0.0,
-        "actual_elapsed": 876.9885368347168
-      },
-      "unaccepted_requests": 0,
-      "urls_processed": 0,
-      "pid": 18841,
-      "address": "127.0.0.1",
-      "rates_1min": {
-        "warc_bytes_per_sec": 0.0,
-        "urls_per_sec": 0.0,
-        "actual_elapsed": 54.92501664161682
-      },
-      "start_time": 1526690353.4060142
-    }
+      ]
 
 ``WARCPROX_WRITE_RECORD`` http method
 =====================================
diff --git a/warcprox/__init__.py b/warcprox/__init__.py
index 6a8e00e..694067a 100644
--- a/warcprox/__init__.py
+++ b/warcprox/__init__.py
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ class Options(_Namespace):
 class Jsonner(json.JSONEncoder):
     def default(self, o):
         if isinstance(o, datetime.datetime):
-            return o.isoformat()
+            return o.isoformat() + 'Z'   # we use only utc
         elif isinstance(o, bytes):
             return base64.b64encode(o).decode('ascii')
         else:
diff --git a/warcprox/warcproxy.py b/warcprox/warcproxy.py
index 2568ed8..81989f7 100644
--- a/warcprox/warcproxy.py
+++ b/warcprox/warcproxy.py
@@ -425,6 +425,7 @@ class SingleThreadedWarcProxy(http_server.HTTPServer, object):
     def __init__(
             self, stats_db=None, status_callback=None,
             options=warcprox.Options()):
+        self.start_time = datetime.datetime.utcnow()
         self.status_callback = status_callback
         self.stats_db = stats_db
         self.options = options
@@ -477,7 +478,7 @@ class SingleThreadedWarcProxy(http_server.HTTPServer, object):
             'queue_max_size': self.recorded_url_q.maxsize,
             'urls_processed': self.running_stats.urls,
             'warc_bytes_written': self.running_stats.warc_bytes,
-            'start_time': self.running_stats.first_snap_time,
+            'start_time': self.start_time,
         })
         elapsed, urls_per_sec, warc_bytes_per_sec = self.running_stats.current_rates(1)
         result['rates_1min'] = {