diff --git a/Lib/test/test_time.py b/Lib/test/test_time.py
@@ -157,7 +157,8 @@ def test_sleep(self):
        self.assertRaises(ValueError, time.sleep, -1)
        time.sleep(1.2)

-    @unittest.skip("TODO: RUSTPYTHON, thread 'main' panicked at 'a Display implementation returned an error unexpectedly: Error'")
    def test_strftime(self):
        tt = time.gmtime(self.t)
        for directive in ('a', 'A', 'b', 'B', 'c', 'd', 'H', 'I',

diff --git a/extra_tests/snippets/stdlib_datetime.py b/extra_tests/snippets/stdlib_datetime.py
@@ -131,6 +131,11 @@ def __init__(self, offset, name):
assert_raises(NotImplementedError, ne.utcoffset, dt)
assert_raises(NotImplementedError, ne.dst, dt)

# XXX: bug #1302
# def test_normal(self):
#fo = FixedOffset(3, "Three")

diff --git a/vm/src/stdlib/time.rs b/vm/src/stdlib/time.rs
@@ -207,8 +207,18 @@ mod time {

    #[pyfunction]
    fn strftime(format: PyStrRef, t: OptionalArg<PyStructTime>, vm: &VirtualMachine) -> PyResult {
        let instant = t.naive_or_local(vm)?;
-        let formatted_time = instant.format(format.as_str()).to_string();
        Ok(vm.ctx.new_str(formatted_time).into())
    }