diff --git a/src/uu/touch/src/touch.rs b/src/uu/touch/src/touch.rs
index 047313e64..eb6154f2b 100644
--- a/src/uu/touch/src/touch.rs
+++ b/src/uu/touch/src/touch.rs
@@ -640,6 +640,30 @@ fn parse_date(ref_time: DateTime<Local>, s: &str) -> Result<FileTime, TouchError
     Err(TouchError::InvalidDateFormat(s.to_owned()))
 }
 
+/// Prepends 19 or 20 to the year if it is a 2 digit year
+///
+/// GNU `touch` behavior:
+///
+/// - 68 and before is interpreted as 20xx
+/// - 69 and after is interpreted as 19xx
+fn prepend_century(s: &str) -> UResult<String> {
+    let first_two_digits = s[..2]
+        .parse::<u32>()
+        .map_err(|_| USimpleError::new(1, format!("invalid date ts format {}", s.quote())))?;
+    Ok(format!(
+        "{}{s}",
+        if first_two_digits > 68 { 19 } else { 20 }
+    ))
+}
+
+/// Parses a timestamp string into a FileTime.
+///
+/// This function attempts to parse a string into a FileTime
+/// As expected by gnu touch -t : `[[cc]yy]mmddhhmm[.ss]`
+///
+/// Note that  If the year is specified with only two digits,
+/// then cc is 20 for years in the range 0 … 68, and 19 for years in 69 … 99.
+/// in order to be compatible with GNU `touch`.
 fn parse_timestamp(s: &str) -> UResult<FileTime> {
     use format::*;
 
@@ -648,9 +672,9 @@ fn parse_timestamp(s: &str) -> UResult<FileTime> {
     let (format, ts) = match s.chars().count() {
         15 => (YYYYMMDDHHMM_DOT_SS, s.to_owned()),
         12 => (YYYYMMDDHHMM, s.to_owned()),
-        // If we don't add "20", we have insufficient information to parse
-        13 => (YYYYMMDDHHMM_DOT_SS, format!("20{s}")),
-        10 => (YYYYMMDDHHMM, format!("20{s}")),
+        // If we don't add "19" or "20", we have insufficient information to parse
+        13 => (YYYYMMDDHHMM_DOT_SS, prepend_century(s)?),
+        10 => (YYYYMMDDHHMM, prepend_century(s)?),
         11 => (YYYYMMDDHHMM_DOT_SS, format!("{}{}", current_year(), s)),
         8 => (YYYYMMDDHHMM, format!("{}{}", current_year(), s)),
         _ => {
diff --git a/tests/by-util/test_touch.rs b/tests/by-util/test_touch.rs
index 91298ff9e..98004bb71 100644
--- a/tests/by-util/test_touch.rs
+++ b/tests/by-util/test_touch.rs
@@ -118,6 +118,45 @@ fn test_touch_set_mdhms_time() {
     assert_eq!(mtime.unix_seconds() - start_of_year.unix_seconds(), 45296);
 }
 
+#[test]
+fn test_touch_2_digit_years_68() {
+    // 68 and before are 20xx
+    let (at, mut ucmd) = at_and_ucmd!();
+    let file = "test_touch_set_two_digit_68_time";
+
+    ucmd.args(&["-t", "6801010000", file])
+        .succeeds()
+        .no_output();
+
+    assert!(at.file_exists(file));
+
+    //  January 1, 2068, 00:00:00
+    let expected = FileTime::from_unix_time(3_092_601_600, 0);
+    let (atime, mtime) = get_file_times(&at, file);
+    assert_eq!(atime, mtime);
+    assert_eq!(atime, expected);
+    assert_eq!(mtime, expected);
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn test_touch_2_digit_years_69() {
+    // 69 and after are 19xx
+    let (at, mut ucmd) = at_and_ucmd!();
+    let file = "test_touch_set_two_digit_69_time";
+
+    ucmd.args(&["-t", "6901010000", file])
+        .succeeds()
+        .no_output();
+
+    assert!(at.file_exists(file));
+    // January 1, 1969, 00:00:00
+    let expected = FileTime::from_unix_time(-31_536_000, 0);
+    let (atime, mtime) = get_file_times(&at, file);
+    assert_eq!(atime, mtime);
+    assert_eq!(atime, expected);
+    assert_eq!(mtime, expected);
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn test_touch_set_ymdhm_time() {
     let (at, mut ucmd) = at_and_ucmd!();