diff --git a/solr/contrib/extraction/src/test/org/apache/solr/handler/extraction/ExtractingRequestHandlerTest.java b/solr/contrib/extraction/src/test/org/apache/solr/handler/extraction/ExtractingRequestHandlerTest.java
index 852b7ce3cab..85e1c78c834 100644
--- a/solr/contrib/extraction/src/test/org/apache/solr/handler/extraction/ExtractingRequestHandlerTest.java
+++ b/solr/contrib/extraction/src/test/org/apache/solr/handler/extraction/ExtractingRequestHandlerTest.java
@@ -15,8 +15,11 @@
  * limitations under the License.
  */
 package org.apache.solr.handler.extraction;
+
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Locale;
+import java.util.TimeZone;
 
 import org.apache.solr.SolrTestCaseJ4;
 import org.apache.solr.common.SolrException;
@@ -41,8 +44,12 @@ public class ExtractingRequestHandlerTest extends SolrTestCaseJ4 {
 
   @BeforeClass
   public static void beforeClass() throws Exception {
-    assumeFalse("SOLR-12759 JDK 11 (1st release) and Tika 1.x can result in extracting dates in a bad format.",
-        System.getProperty("java.version").startsWith("11"));
+    // Is the JDK/env affected by a known bug?
+    if (!TimeZone.getDefault().getDisplayName(false, TimeZone.SHORT, Locale.US).matches("[A-Z]{3}([+-]\\d\\d(:\\d\\d)?)?")) {
+      assert System.getProperty("java.version").startsWith("11") : "Is some other JVM affected?  Or bad regex?";
+      assumeTrue("SOLR-12759 JDK 11 (1st release) and Tika 1.x can result in extracting dates in a bad format.", false);
+    }
+
     initCore("solrconfig.xml", "schema.xml", getFile("extraction/solr").getAbsolutePath());
   }