diff --git a/icu4j/main/classes/core/src/com/ibm/icu/text/DecimalFormat.java b/icu4j/main/classes/core/src/com/ibm/icu/text/DecimalFormat.java
index ec160d647c..4093b225af 100644
--- a/icu4j/main/classes/core/src/com/ibm/icu/text/DecimalFormat.java
+++ b/icu4j/main/classes/core/src/com/ibm/icu/text/DecimalFormat.java
@@ -824,8 +824,6 @@ public class DecimalFormat extends NumberFormat {
             //    * round(number / roundingDouble, roundingMode, isNegative);
             double newNumber = round(number, roundingDouble, roundingDoubleReciprocal, roundingMode,
                                      isNegative);
-            //if (newNumber == 0.0 && number != newNumber)
-            //    isNegative = false; // if we touched it, then make zero be zero.
             number = newNumber;
         }
 
diff --git a/icu4j/main/tests/core/src/com/ibm/icu/dev/test/format/NumberFormatTest.java b/icu4j/main/tests/core/src/com/ibm/icu/dev/test/format/NumberFormatTest.java
index e206289452..e1ad5724c9 100644
--- a/icu4j/main/tests/core/src/com/ibm/icu/dev/test/format/NumberFormatTest.java
+++ b/icu4j/main/tests/core/src/com/ibm/icu/dev/test/format/NumberFormatTest.java
@@ -2664,16 +2664,16 @@ public class NumberFormatTest extends com.ibm.icu.dev.test.TestFmwk {
         df.setRoundingMode(MathContext.ROUND_HALF_UP); 
         df.setMinimumFractionDigits(1); 
         df.setMaximumFractionDigits(1); 
-
-        System.out.println(df.format(-0.01)); 
-        //will print -0.0, and the DecimalFormat support 
-        //in JDK will result in -0.0 when used with 
-        //setRoundingMode(RoundingMode.HALF_UP);
+        String text1 = df.format(-0.01);
         
         df.setRoundingIncrement(0.1);         
+        String text2 = df.format(-0.01);
         
-        System.out.println(df.format(-0.01)); 
-        // will print 0.0, but: 
-        
+        // output1 and output2 must be identical
+        if (!text1.equals(text2)) {
+            errln("NumberFormat.format() should return the same result - text1="
+                    + text1 + " text2=" + text2);
+        }
+  
     }
 }