diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/jq/jq/musl.patch b/pkgs/by-name/jq/jq/musl.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3632899882e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/jq/jq/musl.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+From 63e9449a8142ce30c83fcd7e9396e5de9843774e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Alyssa Ross <hi@alyssa.is>
+Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2025 11:00:13 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] jq.test: drop non-portable %F test
+
+%F is a non-portable GNU extension, not supported by all strptime
+implementations (for example musl's).
+
+Link: https://github.com/jqlang/jq/pull/3365
+---
+ tests/jq.test | 4 ----
+ 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
+
+diff --git a/tests/jq.test b/tests/jq.test
+index 4ecf72f..6bfb6f8 100644
+--- a/tests/jq.test
++++ b/tests/jq.test
+@@ -1848,10 +1848,6 @@ try ["OK", strflocaltime({})] catch ["KO", .]
+ "2015-03-05T23:51:47Z"
+ [[2015,2,5,23,51,47,4,63],1425599507]
+ 
+-[strptime("%FT%T")|(.,mktime)]
+-"2025-06-07T08:09:10"
+-[[2025,5,7,8,9,10,6,157],1749283750]
+-
+ # Check day-of-week and day of year computations
+ # (should trip an assert if this fails)
+ last(range(365 * 67)|("1970-03-01T01:02:03Z"|strptime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ")|mktime) + (86400 * .)|strftime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ")|strptime("%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ"))
+-- 
+2.49.0
+
diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/jq/jq/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/jq/jq/package.nix
index 5193a5f5263a..66cae1f2c1b1 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/jq/jq/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/jq/jq/package.nix
@@ -30,14 +30,15 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (finalAttrs: {
     "out"
   ];
 
-  # tortured syntax to avoid rebuilds
-  # needed because epoch conversion test here is right at the end of 32 bit integer space
-  # See also: https://github.com/jqlang/jq/blob/859a8073ee8a21f2133154eea7c2bd5e0d60837f/tests/optional.test#L15-L18
-  # "-D_TIME_BITS=64 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64" would be preferrable, but breaks with dynamic linking,
-  # unless done globally in stdenv for all of 32 bit.
-  ${if stdenv.hostPlatform.is32bit then "patches" else null} = [
-    ./disable-end-of-epoch-conversion-test.patch
-  ];
+  patches =
+    [ ./musl.patch ]
+    ++ lib.optionals stdenv.hostPlatform.is32bit [
+      # needed because epoch conversion test here is right at the end of 32 bit integer space
+      # See also: https://github.com/jqlang/jq/blob/859a8073ee8a21f2133154eea7c2bd5e0d60837f/tests/optional.test#L15-L18
+      # "-D_TIME_BITS=64 -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64" would be preferrable, but breaks with dynamic linking,
+      # unless done globally in stdenv for all of 32 bit.
+      ./disable-end-of-epoch-conversion-test.patch
+    ];
 
   # https://github.com/jqlang/jq/issues/2871
   postPatch = lib.optionalString stdenv.hostPlatform.isFreeBSD ''