diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index a432f71a7c..bc496ff733 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ Version 1.1.14 work in progress
 - Enh #2275: Added primary log rotation by copy and truncate to CFileLogRoute (bdstevens)
 - Enh #2415: Cancel current ajax request before create a new one in CGridView and CListView (gusnips)
 - Enh #2416: Avoid instantiating HTMLPurifier on each CHtmlPurifier::purify() call. Allow to pass array as argument of CHtmlPurifier::purify() (twisted1919)
+- Enh #2435: CFileCache entry expiration time could now be embedded into the cache file instead of changing file's modification time to be in future (resurtm)
 - Enh #2459: Absolute session timeout in CWebUser (ivokund)
 - Enh #2494: Allow to configure CBaseListView emptyText container tag name (ifdattic)
 - Chg: Upgraded HTMLPurifier to v4.5.0 (samdark)
diff --git a/framework/caching/CFileCache.php b/framework/caching/CFileCache.php
index 02b55df27a..f8ed789663 100644
--- a/framework/caching/CFileCache.php
+++ b/framework/caching/CFileCache.php
@@ -41,6 +41,15 @@ class CFileCache extends CCache
 	 * The value of this property should not exceed 16 (less than 3 is recommended).
 	 */
 	public $directoryLevel=0;
+	/**
+	 * @var boolean whether cache entry expiration time should be embedded into a physical file.
+	 * Defaults to false meaning that the file modification time will be used to store expire value.
+	 * True value means that first ten bytes of the file would be reserved and used to store expiration time.
+	 * On some systems PHP is not allowed to change file modification time to be in future even with 777
+	 * permissions, so this property could be useful in this case.
+	 * @since 1.1.14
+	 */
+	public $embedExpiry=false;
 
 	private $_gcProbability=100;
 	private $_gced=false;
@@ -103,8 +112,8 @@ protected function flushValues()
 	protected function getValue($key)
 	{
 		$cacheFile=$this->getCacheFile($key);
-		if(($time=@filemtime($cacheFile))>time())
-			return @file_get_contents($cacheFile);
+		if(($time=$this->filemtime($cacheFile))>time())
+			return @file_get_contents($cacheFile,false,null,$this->embedExpiry ? 10 : -1);
 		elseif($time>0)
 			@unlink($cacheFile);
 		return false;
@@ -134,10 +143,10 @@ protected function setValue($key,$value,$expire)
 		$cacheFile=$this->getCacheFile($key);
 		if($this->directoryLevel>0)
 			@mkdir(dirname($cacheFile),0777,true);
-		if(@file_put_contents($cacheFile,$value,LOCK_EX)!==false)
+		if(@file_put_contents($cacheFile,$this->embedExpiry ? $expire.$value : $value,LOCK_EX)!==false)
 		{
 			@chmod($cacheFile,0777);
-			return @touch($cacheFile,$expire);
+			return $this->embedExpiry ? true : @touch($cacheFile,$expire);
 		}
 		else
 			return false;
@@ -155,7 +164,7 @@ protected function setValue($key,$value,$expire)
 	protected function addValue($key,$value,$expire)
 	{
 		$cacheFile=$this->getCacheFile($key);
-		if(@filemtime($cacheFile)>time())
+		if($this->filemtime($cacheFile)>time())
 			return false;
 		return $this->setValue($key,$value,$expire);
 	}
@@ -212,9 +221,22 @@ public function gc($expiredOnly=true,$path=null)
 			$fullPath=$path.DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR.$file;
 			if(is_dir($fullPath))
 				$this->gc($expiredOnly,$fullPath);
-			elseif($expiredOnly && @filemtime($fullPath)<time() || !$expiredOnly)
+			elseif($expiredOnly && $this->filemtime($fullPath)<time() || !$expiredOnly)
 				@unlink($fullPath);
 		}
 		closedir($handle);
 	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Returns cache file modification time. {@link $embedExpiry} aware.
+	 * @param string $path to the file, modification time to be retrieved from.
+	 * @return integer file modification time.
+	 */
+	private function filemtime($path)
+	{
+		if($this->embedExpiry)
+			return (int)@file_get_contents($path,false,null,0,10);
+		else
+			return @filemtime($path);
+	}
 }
diff --git a/tests/framework/caching/CFileCacheTest.php b/tests/framework/caching/CFileCacheTest.php
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..82ca716672
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/framework/caching/CFileCacheTest.php
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+<?php
+
+class CFileCacheTest extends CTestCase
+{
+	/**
+	 * https://github.com/yiisoft/yii/issues/2435
+	 */
+	public function testEmbedExpiry()
+	{
+		$app=new TestApplication(array(
+			'id'=>'testApp',
+			'components'=>array(
+				'cache'=>array('class'=>'CFileCache'),
+			),
+		));
+		$app->reset();
+		$cache=$app->cache;
+
+		$cache->set('testKey1','testValue1',2);
+		$files=glob(Yii::getPathOfAlias('application.runtime.cache').'/*.bin');
+		$this->assertEquals(time()+2,filemtime($files[0]));
+
+		$cache->set('testKey2','testValue2',2);
+		sleep(1);
+		$this->assertEquals('testValue2',$cache->get('testKey2'));
+
+		$cache->set('testKey3','testValue3',2);
+		sleep(3);
+		$this->assertEquals(false,$cache->get('testKey2'));
+
+
+		$app=new TestApplication(array(
+			'id'=>'testApp',
+			'components'=>array(
+				'cache'=>array('class'=>'CFileCache','embedExpiry'=>true),
+			),
+		));
+		$app->reset();
+		$cache=$app->cache;
+
+		$cache->set('testKey4','testValue4',2);
+		$files=glob(Yii::getPathOfAlias('application.runtime.cache').'/*.bin');
+		$this->assertEquals(time(),filemtime($files[0]));
+
+		$cache->set('testKey5','testValue5',2);
+		sleep(1);
+		$this->assertEquals('testValue5',$cache->get('testKey5'));
+
+		$cache->set('testKey6','testValue6',2);
+		sleep(3);
+		$this->assertEquals(false,$cache->get('testKey6'));
+	}
+}