diff --git a/recipes/date/all/test_package/CMakeLists.txt b/recipes/date/all/test_package/CMakeLists.txt
index 276e986aaf0a2..7a4b3fe1c9b08 100644
--- a/recipes/date/all/test_package/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/recipes/date/all/test_package/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.8)
+cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.15)
 project(test_package LANGUAGES CXX)
 
-find_package(date REQUIRED CONFIG)
+find_package(date REQUIRED)
 
 add_executable(${PROJECT_NAME} test_package.cpp)
 target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME} PRIVATE date::date)
diff --git a/recipes/date/all/test_package/test_package.cpp b/recipes/date/all/test_package/test_package.cpp
index 8dcac9f656989..4ccf632e8e904 100644
--- a/recipes/date/all/test_package/test_package.cpp
+++ b/recipes/date/all/test_package/test_package.cpp
@@ -1,60 +1,16 @@
 #include "date/date.h"
 #include "date/tz.h"
-
-#include <chrono>
-#include <cstdlib>
 #include <iostream>
-#include <type_traits>
-
-class ZoneOffset {
-public:
-    explicit ZoneOffset(std::chrono::minutes offset)
-        : _offset(offset) {}
-
-    template <class Duration>
-    auto to_local(date::sys_time<Duration> tp) const
-        -> date::local_time<typename std::common_type<Duration, std::chrono::minutes>::type> {
-        using namespace date;
-        using namespace std::chrono;
-        using LT = local_time<typename std::common_type<Duration, minutes>::type>;
-        return LT{(tp + _offset).time_since_epoch()};
-    }
-
-    template <class Duration>
-    auto to_sys(date::local_time<Duration> tp) const
-        -> date::sys_time<typename std::common_type<Duration, std::chrono::minutes>::type> {
-        using namespace date;
-        using namespace std::chrono;
-        using ST = sys_time<typename std::common_type<Duration, minutes>::type>;
-        return ST{(tp - _offset).time_since_epoch()};
-    }
-
-private:
-    std::chrono::minutes _offset;
-};
 
 int main() {
-    using namespace std::chrono;
-    using namespace date;
-
-    auto date1 = 2015_y/March/22;
-    std::cout << date1 << '\n';
-    auto date2 = March/22/2015;
-    std::cout << date2 << '\n';
-    auto date3 = 22_d/March/2015;
-    std::cout << date3 << '\n';
-
-    ZoneOffset p3_45{hours{3} + minutes{45}};
-    zoned_time<milliseconds, ZoneOffset*> zt{&p3_45, floor<milliseconds>(system_clock::now())};
-    std::cout << zt.get_sys_time() << " (sys time)\n";
-    std::cout << zt.get_local_time() << " (local time)\n";
+    const date::year_month_day conan_two(date::year(2023), date::month(2), date::day(22));
+    std::cout << "Conan was released on: " << conan_two << std::endl;
 
 #ifndef DATE_HEADER_ONLY
     try {
-        auto tz = date::current_zone()->name();
-        std::cout << "timezone: " << tz << std::endl;
-    } catch (const std::exception & e) {
-         std::cout << "exception caught " << e.what() << std::endl;
+        const date::time_zone* tz = date::current_zone();
+    }
+    catch (const std::exception & e) {
     }
 #endif
 
diff --git a/recipes/date/all/test_v1_package/CMakeLists.txt b/recipes/date/all/test_v1_package/CMakeLists.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 925ecbe19e448..0000000000000
--- a/recipes/date/all/test_v1_package/CMakeLists.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.1)
-project(test_package)
-
-include(${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/conanbuildinfo.cmake)
-conan_basic_setup(TARGETS)
-
-add_subdirectory(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/../test_package/
-                 ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/test_package/)
diff --git a/recipes/date/all/test_v1_package/conanfile.py b/recipes/date/all/test_v1_package/conanfile.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 09dc5f4a353ed..0000000000000
--- a/recipes/date/all/test_v1_package/conanfile.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-from conans import ConanFile, CMake, tools
-import os
-
-
-class TestPackageConan(ConanFile):
-    settings = "os", "arch", "compiler", "build_type"
-    generators = "cmake", "cmake_find_package_multi"
-
-    def build(self):
-        cmake = CMake(self)
-        cmake.definitions["DATE_HEADER_ONLY"] = self.options["date:header_only"]
-        cmake.configure()
-        cmake.build()
-
-    def test(self):
-        if not tools.cross_building(self):
-            bin_path = os.path.join("bin", "test_package")
-            self.run(bin_path, run_environment=True)