Sorry, this got lost in my inbox and so I only noticed it when I was scanning through the old bug reports.
I can't replicate the problem. Can you say more about (a) what version of e2fsprogs you were using, and (b) what time was the hardware clock set to? # date Wed Aug 31 22:24:06 EDT 2016 # debugfs -w /tmp/test.img debugfs 1.43.1 (08-Jun-2016) debugfs: ssv mtime 20160830 debugfs: ssv wtime 20160830 debugfs: ssv mkfs_time 20160830 debugfs: ssv lastcheck 20160830 debugfs: ssv checkinterval 86400 debugfs: q # e2fsck -p /tmp/test.img /tmp/test.img has gone 2 days without being checked, check forced. /tmp/test.img: 11/16 files (0.0% non-contiguous), 21/100 blocks - Ted