diff --git a/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/dev/test/duration/ICUDurationTest.java b/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/dev/test/duration/ICUDurationTest.java
index 547cbed9edc..1705ec99044 100644
--- a/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/dev/test/duration/ICUDurationTest.java
+++ b/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/dev/test/duration/ICUDurationTest.java
@@ -120,6 +120,27 @@ public class ICUDurationTest extends TestFmwk {
         } else {
             errln("FAIL: got " + out + " wanted " + expected + " from " + d);
         }
+        // test 3
+        d = factory.newDuration("P0DT0H0M10.0S");
+        df = DurationFormat.getInstance(new ULocale("en"));
+        expected = "10 seconds";
+        out = df.format(d);
+        if(out.equals(expected)) {
+            logln("out=expected: " + expected + " from " + d);
+        } else {
+            errln("FAIL: got " + out + " wanted " + expected + " from " + d);
+        }
+        // test 4
+        d = factory.newDuration(86400000);
+        df = DurationFormat.getInstance(new ULocale("en"));
+        expected = "1 day, 0 hours, 0 minutes, and 0 seconds";
+        out = df.format(d);
+        if(out.equals(expected)) {
+            logln("out=expected: " + expected + " from " + d);
+        } else {
+            errln("FAIL: got " + out + " wanted " + expected + " from " + d);
+        }
+
     }
 
 
diff --git a/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/impl/duration/BasicDurationFormat.java b/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/impl/duration/BasicDurationFormat.java
index 7596ddf400d..8fb6f5e5055 100644
--- a/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/impl/duration/BasicDurationFormat.java
+++ b/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/impl/duration/BasicDurationFormat.java
@@ -133,9 +133,15 @@ public class BasicDurationFormat extends DurationFormat {
             inPast = true;
         }
         // convert a Duration to a Period
+        boolean sawNonZero = false; // did we have a set, non-zero field?
         for(int i=0;i<inFields.length;i++) {
             if(duration.isSet(inFields[i])) {
                 Number n = duration.getField(inFields[i]);
+                if(n.intValue() == 0 && !sawNonZero) {
+                    continue; // ignore zero fields larger than the largest nonzero field
+                } else {
+                    sawNonZero = true;
+                }
                 if(p == null) {
                     p = Period.at(n.floatValue(), outFields[i]);
                 } else {