diff --git a/srcpkgs/tzutils/patches/only-check-relevant.patch b/srcpkgs/tzutils/patches/only-check-relevant.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c16a47ff57
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/tzutils/patches/only-check-relevant.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+Index: tzutils-2021b/Makefile
+===================================================================
+--- tzutils-2021b.orig/Makefile
++++ tzutils-2021b/Makefile
+@@ -751,9 +751,8 @@ tzselect:	tzselect.ksh version
+ 		chmod +x $@.out
+ 		mv $@.out $@
+ 
+-check:		check_character_set check_white_space check_links \
+-		  check_name_lengths check_sorted \
+-		  check_tables check_web check_zishrink check_tzs
++check:		check_links check_name_lengths check_sorted \
++		  check_tables check_zishrink check_tzs
+ 
+ check_character_set: $(ENCHILADA)
+ 	test ! '$(UTF8_LOCALE)' || \
diff --git a/srcpkgs/tzutils/patches/reexec-with-bash.patch b/srcpkgs/tzutils/patches/reexec-with-bash.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..756146177b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/tzutils/patches/reexec-with-bash.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+Avoid dependencies to bash, in order to reduce the bootstrap chain,
+However, this utility works better with bash because of select builtin
+Index: tzutils-2021b/tzselect.ksh
+===================================================================
+--- tzutils-2021b.orig/tzselect.ksh
++++ tzutils-2021b/tzselect.ksh
+@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
+ # Ask the user about the time zone, and output the resulting TZ value to stdout.
+ # Interact with the user via stderr and stdin.
+ 
++if [ -z "$BASH_VERSION" ] && [ -x /bin/bash ]; then
++	exec /bin/bash "$0" "$@"
++fi
++
+ PKGVERSION='(tzcode) '
+ TZVERSION=see_Makefile
+ REPORT_BUGS_TO=tz@iana.org
diff --git a/srcpkgs/tzutils/template b/srcpkgs/tzutils/template
index 252a714929..5d9dafdae2 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/tzutils/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/tzutils/template
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Template file for 'tzutils'
 pkgname=tzutils
-version=2021a
-revision=2
+version=2021b
+revision=1
 bootstrap=yes
 wrksrc="tz-${version}"
 short_desc="Time zone and daylight-saving time utilities"
@@ -9,11 +9,16 @@ maintainer="Đoàn Trần Công Danh <congdanhqx@gmail.com>"
 license="Public Domain, BSD-3-Clause"
 homepage="https://www.iana.org/time-zones"
 distfiles="https://github.com/eggert/tz/archive/${version}.tar.gz"
-checksum=bd7ecd99cbb0a2f15bb7e38be2cbc04dced89922fce4ac0ffcd1ca844ba9362f
+checksum=97996d405c651d981288720f03b16e7ba9173c941728015de0cf681245bb7600
 
 do_build() {
 	echo "$version" >version
-	make TZDIR=/usr/share/zoneinfo CC=$CC CFLAGS="$CFLAGS" LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS"
+	make TZDIR=/usr/share/zoneinfo KSHELL=/bin/sh \
+		CC=$CC CFLAGS="$CFLAGS" LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS"
+}
+
+do_check() {
+	make check
 }
 
 do_install() {