diff --git a/src/base/BUILD.gn b/src/base/BUILD.gn
index 1d97f72804..9dc8dc88a8 100644
--- a/src/base/BUILD.gn
+++ b/src/base/BUILD.gn
@@ -2068,7 +2068,7 @@ component("base") {
   if (is_posix && !is_apple) {
     sources += [
       "time/time_conversion_posix.cc",
-      "time/time_exploded_icu.cc",  # See note below.
+      #"time/time_exploded_icu.cc",  # See note below.
       "time/time_exploded_posix.cc",
       "time/time_now_posix.cc",
     ]
@@ -2079,7 +2079,7 @@ component("base") {
     # versa). Thus, the dependency is taken here for all POSIX platforms and the
     # compiler+linker should be able to easily detect when the ICU routines will
     # not be called and delete them in the final linking.
-    deps += [ "//third_party/icu:icui18n" ]
+    #deps += [ "//third_party/icu:icui18n" ]
   }
 
   if (is_posix && !is_apple && !is_nacl) {
diff --git a/src/base/time/time.h b/src/base/time/time.h
index 1eef31e1d2..9b5dee7f07 100644
--- a/src/base/time/time.h
+++ b/src/base/time/time.h
@@ -789,6 +789,7 @@ class BASE_EXPORT Time : public time_internal::TimeBase<Time> {
 
   // Some platforms use the ICU library to provide To/FromExploded, when their
   // native library implementations are insufficient in some way.
+#if 0
   static void ExplodeUsingIcu(int64_t millis_since_unix_epoch,
                               bool is_local,
                               Exploded* exploded);
@@ -796,6 +797,7 @@ class BASE_EXPORT Time : public time_internal::TimeBase<Time> {
                                    const Exploded& exploded,
                                    int64_t* millis_since_unix_epoch)
       WARN_UNUSED_RESULT;
+#endif
 
   // Rounds down the time to the nearest day in either local time
   // |is_local = true| or UTC |is_local = false|.
diff --git a/src/base/time/time_exploded_posix.cc b/src/base/time/time_exploded_posix.cc
index 4d8dbe01e3..42664ba443 100644
--- a/src/base/time/time_exploded_posix.cc
+++ b/src/base/time/time_exploded_posix.cc
@@ -124,11 +124,13 @@ void Time::Explode(bool is_local, Exploded* exploded) const {
   const int64_t millis_since_unix_epoch =
       ToRoundedDownMillisecondsSinceUnixEpoch();
 
+#if 0
   // For systems with a Y2038 problem, use ICU as the Explode() implementation.
   if (sizeof(SysTime) < 8) {
     ExplodeUsingIcu(millis_since_unix_epoch, is_local, exploded);
     return;
   }
+#endif
 
   // Split the |millis_since_unix_epoch| into separate seconds and millisecond
   // components because the platform calendar-explode operates at one-second