diff --git a/src/java/org/commoncrawl/util/WarcCdxWriter.java b/src/java/org/commoncrawl/util/WarcCdxWriter.java
index 305aa99826..9c9c756da0 100644
--- a/src/java/org/commoncrawl/util/WarcCdxWriter.java
+++ b/src/java/org/commoncrawl/util/WarcCdxWriter.java
@@ -18,13 +18,16 @@
 
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
+import java.net.MalformedURLException;
 import java.net.URI;
 import java.net.URISyntaxException;
+import java.net.URL;
 import java.nio.charset.Charset;
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
 import java.util.Date;
 import java.util.LinkedHashMap;
+import java.util.Locale;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.TimeZone;
 
@@ -32,6 +35,7 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.Path;
 import org.apache.hadoop.util.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.nutch.metadata.Metadata;
+import org.apache.nutch.net.URLNormalizers;
 import org.apache.nutch.net.protocols.Response;
 import org.apache.nutch.protocol.Content;
 import org.archive.url.WaybackURLKeyMaker;
@@ -57,6 +61,7 @@ public class WarcCdxWriter extends WarcWriter {
   private SimpleDateFormat timestampFormat;
   private ObjectWriter jsonWriter;
   private WaybackURLKeyMaker surtKeyMaker = new WaybackURLKeyMaker(true);
+  private URLNormalizers urlNormalizersRedirect;
 
   /**
    * JSON indentation same as by Python WayBack
@@ -81,17 +86,18 @@ public void writeObjectEntrySeparator(JsonGenerator jg)
   }
 
   public WarcCdxWriter(OutputStream warcOut, OutputStream cdxOut,
-      Path warcFilePath) {
+      Path warcFilePath, URLNormalizers redirectNormalizers) {
     super(new CountingOutputStream(warcOut));
     countingOut = (CountingOutputStream) this.out;
     this.cdxOut = cdxOut;
-    timestampFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMddHHmmss");
+    timestampFormat = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMddHHmmss", Locale.ROOT);
     timestampFormat.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
     warcFilename = warcFilePath.toUri().getPath().replaceFirst("^/", "");
     ObjectMapper jsonMapper = new ObjectMapper();
     jsonMapper.getFactory().configure(JsonGenerator.Feature.ESCAPE_NON_ASCII,
         true);
     jsonWriter = jsonMapper.writer(new JsonIndenter());
+    urlNormalizersRedirect = redirectNormalizers;
   }
 
   @Override
@@ -125,6 +131,19 @@ public URI writeWarcResponseRecord(final URI targetUri, final String ip,
     String redirectLocation = null;
     if (isRedirect(httpStatusCode)) {
       redirectLocation = getMeta(content.getMetadata(), "Location");
+      if (redirectLocation != null) {
+        try {
+          // convert redirects from relative to absolute URLs
+          redirectLocation = new URL(targetUri.toURL(), redirectLocation).toString();
+          if (urlNormalizersRedirect != null) {
+            // normalize the redirect target URL
+            redirectLocation = urlNormalizersRedirect.normalize(redirectLocation,
+                URLNormalizers.SCOPE_FETCHER);
+          }
+        } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
+          redirectLocation = null;
+        }
+      }
     }
     writeCdxLine(targetUri, date, offset, length, payloadDigest, content, false,
         redirectLocation, truncated);
diff --git a/src/java/org/commoncrawl/util/WarcRecordWriter.java b/src/java/org/commoncrawl/util/WarcRecordWriter.java
index db07b79214..0f4b8d6cdc 100644
--- a/src/java/org/commoncrawl/util/WarcRecordWriter.java
+++ b/src/java/org/commoncrawl/util/WarcRecordWriter.java
@@ -115,6 +115,7 @@ class WarcRecordWriter extends RecordWriter<Text, WarcCapture> {
   int maxContent = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
   private String precedingURL = ""; // for deduplication
   private URLNormalizers urlNormalizers;
+  private URLNormalizers urlNormalizersRedirect;
 
   public WarcRecordWriter(Configuration conf, Path outputPath, int partition,
       TaskAttemptContext context) throws IOException {
@@ -124,8 +125,8 @@ public WarcRecordWriter(Configuration conf, Path outputPath, int partition,
     FileSystem fs = outputPath.getFileSystem(conf);
 
     SimpleDateFormat fileDate = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyyMMddHHmmss",
-        Locale.US);
-    fileDate.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
+        Locale.ROOT);
+    fileDate.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
 
     String prefix = conf.get("warc.export.prefix", "NUTCH-CRAWL");
 
@@ -167,6 +168,12 @@ public WarcRecordWriter(Configuration conf, Path outputPath, int partition,
       skipByContent = true;
     }
     urlNormalizers = new URLNormalizers(conf, URLNormalizers.SCOPE_INDEXER);
+    if (generateCdx) {
+      // URL normalizers to normalize the redirect targets/locations put into
+      // the CDX index
+      urlNormalizersRedirect = new URLNormalizers(conf,
+          URLNormalizers.SCOPE_FETCHER);
+    }
 
     Path warcPath = new Path(new Path(outputPath, "warc"), filename);
     warcOut = fs.create(warcPath);
@@ -176,7 +183,8 @@ public WarcRecordWriter(Configuration conf, Path outputPath, int partition,
           conf.get("warc.export.cdx.path", outputPath.toString()));
       cdxOut = openCdxOutputStream(new Path(cdxPath, "warc"), filename, conf);
     }
-    warcWriter = openWarcWriter(warcPath, warcOut, cdxOut);
+    warcWriter = openWarcWriter(warcPath, warcOut, cdxOut,
+        urlNormalizersRedirect);
     warcinfoId = warcWriter.writeWarcinfoRecord(filename, hostname, publisher,
         operator, software, isPartOf, description, captureStartDate);
 
@@ -188,7 +196,9 @@ public WarcRecordWriter(Configuration conf, Path outputPath, int partition,
         crawlDiagnosticsCdxOut = openCdxOutputStream(
             new Path(cdxPath, "crawldiagnostics"), filename, conf);
       }
-      crawlDiagnosticsWarcWriter = openWarcWriter(crawlDiagnosticsWarcPath, crawlDiagnosticsWarcOut,crawlDiagnosticsCdxOut);
+      crawlDiagnosticsWarcWriter = openWarcWriter(crawlDiagnosticsWarcPath,
+          crawlDiagnosticsWarcOut, crawlDiagnosticsCdxOut,
+          urlNormalizersRedirect);
       crawlDiagnosticsWarcinfoId = crawlDiagnosticsWarcWriter
           .writeWarcinfoRecord(filename, hostname, publisher, operator,
               software, isPartOf, description, captureStartDate);
@@ -203,7 +213,7 @@ public WarcRecordWriter(Configuration conf, Path outputPath, int partition,
             filename, conf);
       }
       robotsTxtWarcWriter = openWarcWriter(robotsTxtWarcPath, robotsTxtWarcOut,
-          robotsTxtCdxOut);
+          robotsTxtCdxOut, urlNormalizersRedirect);
       robotsTxtWarcinfoId = robotsTxtWarcWriter.writeWarcinfoRecord(filename,
           hostname, publisher, operator, software, isPartOf, description,
           captureStartDate);
@@ -497,9 +507,9 @@ protected static String canonicalizeIP(String ip) {
   }
 
   private WarcWriter openWarcWriter(Path warcPath, DataOutputStream warcOut,
-      DataOutputStream cdxOut) {
+      DataOutputStream cdxOut, URLNormalizers redirectNormalizers) {
     if (cdxOut != null) {
-      return new WarcCdxWriter(warcOut, cdxOut, warcPath);
+      return new WarcCdxWriter(warcOut, cdxOut, warcPath, redirectNormalizers);
     }
     return new WarcWriter(warcOut);
   }
diff --git a/src/java/org/commoncrawl/util/WarcWriter.java b/src/java/org/commoncrawl/util/WarcWriter.java
index f59a585710..57f7825354 100644
--- a/src/java/org/commoncrawl/util/WarcWriter.java
+++ b/src/java/org/commoncrawl/util/WarcWriter.java
@@ -109,8 +109,8 @@ public void end() {
 
   public WarcWriter(final OutputStream out) {
     this.origOut = this.out = out;
-    isoDate = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'");
-    isoDate.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("GMT"));
+    isoDate = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'", Locale.ROOT);
+    isoDate.setTimeZone(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
   }
 
   /**