diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index f1815d3bcfd5979dc7e28f21261493ae77f1717a..9f6fa3f746294c7a817aaf4ea5dfceee35e72f8d 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -3222,7 +3222,18 @@ static int ext4_commit_super(struct super_block *sb, int sync)
 		clear_buffer_write_io_error(sbh);
 		set_buffer_uptodate(sbh);
 	}
-	es->s_wtime = cpu_to_le32(get_seconds());
+	/*
+	 * If the file system is mounted read-only, don't update the
+	 * superblock write time.  This avoids updating the superblock
+	 * write time when we are mounting the root file system
+	 * read/only but we need to replay the journal; at that point,
+	 * for people who are east of GMT and who make their clock
+	 * tick in localtime for Windows bug-for-bug compatibility,
+	 * the clock is set in the future, and this will cause e2fsck
+	 * to complain and force a full file system check.
+	 */
+	if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY))
+		es->s_wtime = cpu_to_le32(get_seconds());
 	es->s_kbytes_written =
 		cpu_to_le64(EXT4_SB(sb)->s_kbytes_written + 
 			    ((part_stat_read(sb->s_bdev->bd_part, sectors[1]) -