diff --git a/third_party/forked/shell2junit/sh2ju.sh b/third_party/forked/shell2junit/sh2ju.sh
index 8a4c027eaba..f5f7ec4aa93 100755
--- a/third_party/forked/shell2junit/sh2ju.sh
+++ b/third_party/forked/shell2junit/sh2ju.sh
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ function juLogClean() {
 function juLog() {
   suite="";
   errfile=/tmp/evErr.$$.log
-  date=`which gdate || which date`
+  date=`which gdate 2>/dev/null || which date`
   asserts=00; errors=0; total=0; content=""
 
   # parse arguments