[tarlz] testsuite failure on Alpine (edge)

[J Dean]

0.25 against lzlib 1.14 and/or 1.15-pre1. dynamic and static builds all fail at 
the same point: 

g++ -march=native -O2 -fstack-protector-strong -fstack-clash-protection 
-ftrivial-auto-var-init=zero -fcf-protection=full -mshstk -Wformat 
-Werror=format-security -fomit-frame-pointer -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -pipe 
-D_GLIBCXX_ASSERTIONS=1 -D_LIBCPP_ENABLE_THREAD_SAFETY_ANNOTATIONS=1 
-D_LIBCPP_ENABLE_HARDENED_MODE=1 -static-pie 
-Wl,-z,relro,-z,now,-z,pack-relative-relocs -o tarlz arg_parser.o lzip_index.o 
archive_reader.o common.o common_decode.o common_mutex.o compress.o create.o 
create_lz.o decode.o decode_lz.o delete.o delete_lz.o exclude.o extended.o 
main.o -llz -lpthread
testing tarlz-0.25...
testing --list and --extract...
testing --concatenate...
testing --create...touch: invalid date '2022-01-05T12:22:13'
failure in testing framework
make: *** [Makefile:95: check] Error 1
>>> ERROR: tarlz: check failed

could this be a busybox touch quirk? only by patching the --create --mtime test 
section out does the build complete with all other tests passing. 

--- /dev/null
+++ b/testsuite/check.sh
@@ -731,35 +731,6 @@
 [ ! -e baz ] || test_failed $LINENO
 rm -f out.tar foo bar baz || framework_failure
 
-# test --create --mtime
-dates='@-9223372036854775808 @-9223372036854775807
-       -2147481748-12-31T23:59:59 -1970-01-01T00:00:00
-       0000-01-01T00:00:00 0000-01-01T00:00:01 0000-01-02T00:00:00
-       1697-10-17T11:03:27 1697-10-17T11:03:28 1697-10-17T11:03:29
-       1833-11-24T17:31:43 1833-11-24T17:31:44 1833-11-24T17:31:45
-       1901-12-13T20:45:51 1901-12-13T20:45:52 1901-12-13T20:45:53
-       1901-12-14T20:45:51
-       1969-12-31T23:59:58 1969-12-31T23:59:59
-       1970-01-01T00:00:00 1970-01-01T00:00:01 @0
-       2038-01-18T03:14:07 2038-01-19T03:14:07 2038-01-19T03:14:08
-       2106-02-07T06:28:15 2106-02-07T06:28:16
-       2242-03-16T12:56:31 2242-03-16T12:56:32 @8589934591 @8589934592
-       9999-12-31T23:59:58 9999-12-31T23:59:59
-       2147483647-12-31T23:59:59 @9223372036854775807'
-touch -d 2022-01-05T12:22:13 bar || framework_failure
-for i in ${dates} @-8Ei '2017-10-01 09:00:00' '2017-10-1 9:0:0' \
-         '2017-10-01 09:00' '2017-10-01 09' 2017-10-01 ./bar ; do
-  touch foo || framework_failure
-  "${TARLZ}" -cf out.tar --mtime="$i" foo || test_failed $LINENO "$i"
-  is_uncompressed out.tar || test_failed $LINENO "$i"
-  "${TARLZ}" -q -df out.tar && test_failed $LINENO "$i"
-  "${TARLZ}" -xf out.tar || test_failed $LINENO "$i"
-  if [ "${d_works}" = yes ] ; then
-    "${TARLZ}" -df out.tar --ignore-overflow || test_failed $LINENO "$i"
-  fi
-done
-rm -f out.tar foo bar || framework_failure
-
 mkdir dir || framework_failure
 for i in ${dates} ; do
   # Skip a time stamp $i if it's out of range for this platform,

would like to package this for Alpine (lzip/lzlib/plzip are already in the 
official repos). is there a workaround, perhaps an alternative test? or can the 
test be patched out as above and the resultant binary be used in production, 
despite the check failure?