diff --git a/dev-java/velocity/velocity-2.4.1.ebuild b/dev-java/velocity/velocity-2.4.1.ebuild
index 96104026ec651..a867861989adf 100644
--- a/dev-java/velocity/velocity-2.4.1.ebuild
+++ b/dev-java/velocity/velocity-2.4.1.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=8
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ src_prepare() {
 }
 
 src_test() {
+	local -x TZ="Europe/Berlin"	# https://bugs.gentoo.org/952126
 	pushd src/test/java > /dev/null || die
 		# DataSourceResourceLoaderTestCase.java requires configured jdbc
 		local JAVA_TEST_RUN_ONLY=$(find * \