diff --git a/src/uu/date/fuzz/.gitignore b/src/uu/date/fuzz/.gitignore
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+++ b/src/uu/date/fuzz/.gitignore
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+target
+corpus
+artifacts
diff --git a/src/uu/date/fuzz/Cargo.toml b/src/uu/date/fuzz/Cargo.toml
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+[package]
+name = "uu_date-fuzz"
+version = "0.0.0"
+authors = ["Automatically generated"]
+publish = false
+edition = "2021"
+
+[package.metadata]
+cargo-fuzz = true
+
+[dependencies]
+libfuzzer-sys = "0.4"
+
+[dependencies.uu_date]
+path = ".."
+
+# Prevent this from interfering with workspaces
+[workspace]
+members = ["."]
+
+[[bin]]
+name = "fuzz_target_1"
+path = "fuzz_targets/fuzz_target_1.rs"
+test = false
+doc = false
diff --git a/src/uu/date/fuzz/fuzz_targets/fuzz_target_1.rs b/src/uu/date/fuzz/fuzz_targets/fuzz_target_1.rs
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index 000000000..76e41b76c
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+++ b/src/uu/date/fuzz/fuzz_targets/fuzz_target_1.rs
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+#![no_main]
+use libfuzzer_sys::fuzz_target;
+
+use uu_date::uumain;
+use std::ffi::OsString;
+
+fuzz_target!(|data: &[u8]| {
+    let iter: Vec<OsString> = [""].into_iter().map(|e|OsString::from(e)).collect();
+    let it2 = iter.into_iter();
+       uumain(it2);
+
+});