diff --git a/src/main/java/hudson/scm/SubversionSCM.java b/src/main/java/hudson/scm/SubversionSCM.java
index 01febf872..a21c63249 100755
--- a/src/main/java/hudson/scm/SubversionSCM.java
+++ b/src/main/java/hudson/scm/SubversionSCM.java
@@ -241,6 +241,7 @@ public class SubversionSCM extends SCM implements Serializable {
 
     private boolean ignoreDirPropChanges;
     private boolean filterChangelog;
+    private boolean useCommitTimes;
 
     /**
      * A cache of the svn:externals (keyed by project).
@@ -331,7 +332,13 @@ public SubversionSCM(List<ModuleLocation> locations, WorkspaceUpdater workspaceU
     public SubversionSCM(List<ModuleLocation> locations, WorkspaceUpdater workspaceUpdater,
             SubversionRepositoryBrowser browser, String excludedRegions, String excludedUsers, String excludedRevprop, String excludedCommitMessages,
             String includedRegions, boolean ignoreDirPropChanges) {
-        this(locations, workspaceUpdater, browser, excludedRegions, excludedUsers, excludedRevprop, excludedCommitMessages, includedRegions, ignoreDirPropChanges, false, null);
+        this(locations, workspaceUpdater, browser, excludedRegions, excludedUsers, excludedRevprop, excludedCommitMessages, includedRegions, ignoreDirPropChanges, false, null, false);
+    }
+    
+    public SubversionSCM(List<ModuleLocation> locations, WorkspaceUpdater workspaceUpdater,
+            SubversionRepositoryBrowser browser, String excludedRegions, String excludedUsers, String excludedRevprop, String excludedCommitMessages,
+            String includedRegions, boolean ignoreDirPropChanges, boolean useCommitTimes) {
+        this(locations, workspaceUpdater, browser, excludedRegions, excludedUsers, excludedRevprop, excludedCommitMessages, includedRegions, ignoreDirPropChanges, false, null, useCommitTimes);
     }
 
     @DataBoundConstructor
@@ -339,7 +346,8 @@ public SubversionSCM(List<ModuleLocation> locations, WorkspaceUpdater workspaceU
                          SubversionRepositoryBrowser browser, String excludedRegions, String excludedUsers,
                          String excludedRevprop, String excludedCommitMessages,
                          String includedRegions, boolean ignoreDirPropChanges, boolean filterChangelog,
-                         List<AdditionalCredentials> additionalCredentials) {
+                         List<AdditionalCredentials> additionalCredentials, boolean useCommitTimes) {
+        this.useCommitTimes = useCommitTimes;
         for (Iterator<ModuleLocation> itr = locations.iterator(); itr.hasNext(); ) {
             ModuleLocation ml = itr.next();
             String remote = Util.fixEmptyAndTrim(ml.remote);
@@ -661,6 +669,11 @@ public boolean isIgnoreDirPropChanges() {
     public boolean isFilterChangelog() {
       return filterChangelog;
     }
+    
+    @Exported
+    public boolean isUsingCommitTimes() {
+      return useCommitTimes;
+    }
 
     /**
      * Sets the <tt>SVN_REVISION_n</tt> and <tt>SVN_URL_n</tt> environment variables during the build.
@@ -944,6 +957,7 @@ private synchronized Map<Job, List<External>> getProjectExternalsCache() {
      */
     private static class CheckOutTask extends UpdateTask implements FileCallable<List<External>> {
         private final UpdateTask task;
+        private final boolean isUsingCommitTimes;
 
          public CheckOutTask(Run<?, ?> build, SubversionSCM parent, ModuleLocation location, Date timestamp, TaskListener listener, EnvVars env) {
             this.authProvider = parent.createAuthenticationProvider(build.getParent(), location);
@@ -952,6 +966,7 @@ public CheckOutTask(Run<?, ?> build, SubversionSCM parent, ModuleLocation locati
             this.location = location;
             this.revisions = build.getAction(RevisionParameterAction.class);
             this.task = parent.getWorkspaceUpdater().createTask();
+            this.isUsingCommitTimes = parent.isUsingCommitTimes();
         }
 
         public Set<String> getUnauthenticatedRealms() {
@@ -963,6 +978,11 @@ public Set<String> getUnauthenticatedRealms() {
 
         public List<External> invoke(File ws, VirtualChannel channel) throws IOException {
             clientManager = createClientManager(authProvider);
+            DefaultSVNOptions defaultSVNOptions = createDefaultSVNOptions();
+            if (isUsingCommitTimes) {
+                defaultSVNOptions.setUseCommitTimes(isUsingCommitTimes);
+            }
+            clientManager = new SvnClientManager(SVNClientManager.newInstance(defaultSVNOptions, createSvnAuthenticationManager(authProvider)));
             manager = clientManager.getCore();
             this.ws = ws;
             try {
diff --git a/src/main/resources/hudson/scm/SubversionSCM/config.jelly b/src/main/resources/hudson/scm/SubversionSCM/config.jelly
index 25ce742f7..60c2ae498 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/hudson/scm/SubversionSCM/config.jelly
+++ b/src/main/resources/hudson/scm/SubversionSCM/config.jelly
@@ -56,5 +56,8 @@ THE SOFTWARE.
     <f:entry title="${%Filter changelog}" field="filterChangelog">
         <f:checkbox />
     </f:entry>
+    <f:entry title="${%Set check out file dates to the 'last commit time'}" field="usingCommitTimes">
+        <f:checkbox />
+    </f:entry>
   </f:advanced>
 </j:jelly>
diff --git a/src/main/resources/hudson/scm/SubversionSCM/help-usingCommitTimes.html b/src/main/resources/hudson/scm/SubversionSCM/help-usingCommitTimes.html
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3a76034cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/resources/hudson/scm/SubversionSCM/help-usingCommitTimes.html
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<div>
+  <p>If set Jenkins will set the file timestamps to the last commit time (of each file) when doing a checkout or an update. Otherwise Jenkins will set the current date as the timestamp of each file.</p>
+  <p>
+    Normally the working copy files have timestamps that reflect the last time they were touched by any process. This is generally convenient for most build systems as they look at timestamps as a way of deciding which files need to be recompiled.
+    In other situations, however, it's sometimes nice for the working copy files to have timestamps that reflect the last time they were changed in the repository. The svn export command always places these 'last-commit timestamps' on trees that it produces.
+    See <a href="http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn-book.html#svn.advanced.confarea.opts.config">SVN Red Book</a> for more information.
+  </p>
+</div>
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/test/java/hudson/scm/SubversionSCMTest.java b/src/test/java/hudson/scm/SubversionSCMTest.java
index 630369ed9..c01dfc97d 100644
--- a/src/test/java/hudson/scm/SubversionSCMTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/hudson/scm/SubversionSCMTest.java
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
 import org.dom4j.io.DOMReader;
 import org.junit.Test;
 import org.jvnet.hudson.test.*;
+import org.jvnet.hudson.test.Issue;
 import org.jvnet.hudson.test.HudsonHomeLoader.CopyExisting;
 import org.jvnet.hudson.test.recipes.PresetData;
 import org.tmatesoft.svn.core.*;
@@ -61,7 +62,6 @@
 import org.tmatesoft.svn.core.wc.SVNCommitClient;
 import org.tmatesoft.svn.core.wc.SVNRevision;
 import org.tmatesoft.svn.core.wc.SVNStatus;
-import org.tmatesoft.svn.core.wc.SVNWCUtil;
 
 import java.io.*;
 import java.net.MalformedURLException;
@@ -73,6 +73,8 @@
 import java.util.concurrent.Future;
 
 import static hudson.scm.SubversionSCM.compareSVNAuthentications;
+import static org.hamcrest.Matchers.not;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;
 import static org.jvnet.hudson.test.recipes.PresetData.DataSet.ANONYMOUS_READONLY;
 
 /**
@@ -885,7 +887,7 @@ private void verifyChangelogFilter(boolean shouldFilterLog) throws Exception,
           File repo = new CopyExisting(getClass().getResource("JENKINS-10449.zip")).allocate();
           SubversionSCM scm = new SubversionSCM(ModuleLocation.parse(new String[]{"file://" + repo.toURI().toURL().getPath()},
                                                                      new String[]{"."},null,null),
-                                                new UpdateUpdater(), null, "/z.*", "", "", "", "", false, shouldFilterLog, null);
+                                                new UpdateUpdater(), null, "/z.*", "", "", "", "", false, shouldFilterLog, null, false);
 
           FreeStyleProject p = createFreeStyleProject(String.format("testFilterChangelog-%s", shouldFilterLog));
           p.setScm(scm);
@@ -1706,4 +1708,46 @@ private void invokeTestPollingExternalsForFile() throws Exception {
         // should detect change
         assertTrue(p.poll(StreamTaskListener.fromStdout()).hasChanges());
     }
+
+    /**
+     * Test using commit times
+     *
+     * @throws Throwable
+     */
+    @Issue("JENKINS-5347")
+    public void testUseCommitTimes() throws Throwable {
+        // Given a subversion workspace where the commit times should be used
+        // When the workspace is checked out
+        // Then verify that the last modified time stamp of the format file is 2010-12-31
+      
+        FreeStyleProject p = createFreeStyleProject();
+        File repo = new CopyExisting(getClass().getResource("small.zip")).allocate();
+        SubversionSCM scm = new SubversionSCM(ModuleLocation.parse(new String[]{"file://" + repo.toURI().toURL().getPath()},
+          new String[]{"."}, null, null), new UpdateUpdater(), null, "/z.*", "", "", "", "", false, false, null, true);
+        p.setScm(scm);
+        FreeStyleBuild b = assertBuildStatusSuccess(p.scheduleBuild2(0, new Cause.UserIdCause()).get());
+        // Using long matching to prevent Timezone issues, divided by 1000 as some OS does not return the exact milliseconds
+        assertThat(b.getWorkspace().child("b").lastModified() / 1000, is(1293845528l));
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Test not using commit times
+     *
+     * @throws Throwable
+     */
+    @Issue("JENKINS-5347")
+    public void testNotUseCommitTimes() throws Throwable {
+        // Given a subversion workspace where the commit times should NOT be used
+        // When the workspace is checked out
+        // Then verify that the last modified time stamp of the format file NOT is 2011-01-01
+      
+        FreeStyleProject p = createFreeStyleProject();
+        File repo = new CopyExisting(getClass().getResource("small.zip")).allocate();
+        SubversionSCM scm = new SubversionSCM(ModuleLocation.parse(new String[]{"file://" + repo.toURI().toURL().getPath()},
+          new String[]{"."}, null, null), new UpdateUpdater(), null, "/z.*", "", "", "", "", false, false, null, false);
+        p.setScm(scm);
+        FreeStyleBuild b = assertBuildStatusSuccess(p.scheduleBuild2(0, new Cause.UserIdCause()).get());
+        // Using long matching to prevent Timezone issues, divided by 1000 as some OS does not return the exact milliseconds
+        assertThat(b.getWorkspace().child("b").lastModified() / 1000, not(is(1293845528l)));
+    }
 }