From 6d273604d0a76cc40dbd0e8606a95b33a0275397 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Collin Funk <collin.funk1@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2025 21:14:54 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] tests: date: avoid test failure on NetBSD

* tests/date/date-tz.sh: Allow date to fail with large values for TZ
since NetBSD's tzalloc function limits them to 256 bytes.
---
 tests/date/date-tz.sh | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tests/date/date-tz.sh b/tests/date/date-tz.sh
index 5390cf5680..05736f90dc 100755
--- a/tests/date/date-tz.sh
+++ b/tests/date/date-tz.sh
@@ -21,6 +21,12 @@ print_ver_ date
 
 # coreutils-8.27 would overwrite the heap with large TZ values
 tz_long=$(printf '%2000s' | tr ' ' a)
-date -d "TZ=\"${tz_long}0\" 2017" || fail=1
+date -d "TZ=\"${tz_long}0\" 2017" 2> err
+
+# Gnulib's tzalloc handles arbitrarily long TZ values, but NetBSD's does not.
+case $? in
+  0) ;;
+  *) grep '^date: invalid date' err || fail=1 ;;
+esac
 
 Exit $fail
-- 
2.47.3