diff --git a/tests/updater/update.bats b/tests/updater/update.bats
index 553a76a9d..d1f00cbc2 100644
--- a/tests/updater/update.bats
+++ b/tests/updater/update.bats
@@ -88,13 +88,8 @@ teardown() {
 
   UpdateTime2=$(http --ignore-stdin -b -a ${user}:${APP_PASSWORD} GET ${BASE_URLv1}/feeds | jq '.feeds | .[0].nextUpdateTime')
 
-  # Check if UpdateTime2 is within the expected range and print it if not
-  if [[ $UpdateTime2 -lt $expected_time_min || $UpdateTime2 -gt $expected_time_max ]]; then
-    echo "UpdateTime2 is out of range: $UpdateTime2"
-  fi
-
-  # Assert that UpdateTime2 is within the expected range
-  run bash -c "[[ $UpdateTime2 -ge $expected_time_min && $UpdateTime2 -le $expected_time_max ]]"
+  # Assert that UpdateTime2 is within the expected range and print the timestamp if not
+  run bash -c "[[ \$UpdateTime2 -ge \$expected_time_min && \$UpdateTime2 -le \$expected_time_max ]] || echo \"UpdateTime2 is out of range: \$UpdateTime2\""
   assert_success
 
 }
@@ -128,34 +123,6 @@ teardown() {
   assert_output --partial "${ID_LIST1[*]}"
 }
 
-# older date is not a thing anymore
-#@test "[$TESTSUITE] Test feed with 'outdated' items https://github.com/nextcloud/news/issues/2236 " {
-# # Create Feed, for the first fetch a timestamp today -1 year is used.
-#  FEEDID=$(http --ignore-stdin -b -a ${user}:${APP_PASSWORD} POST ${BASE_URLv1}/feeds url=$TEST_FEED | grep -Po '"id":\K([0-9]+)')
-#
-#  sleep 2
-#
-#  # Get Items
-#  ID_LIST1=($(http --ignore-stdin -b -a ${user}:${APP_PASSWORD} GET ${BASE_URLv1}/items | grep -Po '"id":\K([0-9]+)' | tr '\n' ' '))
-#
-#  # Generate Feed with older items (-o yes)
-#  php ${BATS_TEST_DIRNAME}/../test_helper/php-feed-generator/feed-generator.php -a 15 -s 9 -f ${BATS_TEST_DIRNAME}/../test_helper/feeds/test.xml -o yes
-#
-#  # Trigger Update
-#  http --ignore-stdin -b -a ${user}:${APP_PASSWORD} GET ${BASE_URLv1}/feeds/update userId=${user} feedId=$FEEDID
-#
-#  sleep 2
-#
-#  # Get Items again
-#  ID_LIST2=($(http --ignore-stdin -b -a ${user}:${APP_PASSWORD} GET ${BASE_URLv1}/items | grep -Po '"id":\K([0-9]+)' | tr '\n' ' '))
-#
-#  output="${ID_LIST2[*]}"
-#
-#  # Check that they are not equal but that they match partially.
-#  assert_not_equal "${ID_LIST1[*]}" "${ID_LIST2[*]}"
-#  assert_output --partial "${ID_LIST1[*]}"
-#}
-
 @test "[$TESTSUITE] Test purge with small feed" {
   # Disable useNextUpdateTime
   ./occ config:app:set news useNextUpdateTime --value=false