diff --git a/recipes-qt/qt6/ptest/run-ptest b/recipes-qt/qt6/ptest/run-ptest
index 3933bae..1052856 100644
--- a/recipes-qt/qt6/ptest/run-ptest
+++ b/recipes-qt/qt6/ptest/run-ptest
@@ -1,5 +1,16 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
+if [ ! -e tst_list ]; then
+    echo PASS: no tests
+    exit 0
+fi
+
+export LANG=C.UTF-8
+export QT_QPA_PLATFORM=offscreen
 for test in $(cat tst_list); do
-    ( cd $(dirname ${test}) && ./$(basename ${test}) )
+    (
+    cd $(dirname ${test})
+    t=$(basename ${test})
+    ./${t} && echo PASS: ${t} || echo FAIL: ${t}
+    )
 done
diff --git a/recipes-qt/qt6/qt6-ptest.inc b/recipes-qt/qt6/qt6-ptest.inc
index c12c9bf..d2b9b4d 100644
--- a/recipes-qt/qt6/qt6-ptest.inc
+++ b/recipes-qt/qt6/qt6-ptest.inc
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ DEBUG_PREFIX_MAP += "\
  -fmacro-prefix-map=${D}= \
 "
 
+do_install_ptest_base[progress] = "${@d.getVarFlag('do_compile', 'progress')}"
+
 fakeroot do_install_ptest() {
     cat >${WORKDIR}/toolchain-ptest.cmake <<EOF
 include(${WORKDIR}/toolchain.cmake)
diff --git a/recipes-qt/qt6/qtbase_git.bb b/recipes-qt/qt6/qtbase_git.bb
index 9209301..73c7edb 100644
--- a/recipes-qt/qt6/qtbase_git.bb
+++ b/recipes-qt/qt6/qtbase_git.bb
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ DEPENDS:remove:class-native = "qtbase-native"
 RDEPENDS_${PN}:remove:class-native = "libssl-native"
 
 RRECOMMENDS:${PN}:append:libc-glibc:class-target = " locale-base-c"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN}-ptest:append = " tzdata"
 
 PACKAGECONFIG:class-native ?= "\
     gui widgets jpeg png dbus no-opengl openssl zlib zstd \