diff --git a/coordinator-common/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/coordinator/common/runtime/CoordinatorRuntime.java b/coordinator-common/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/coordinator/common/runtime/CoordinatorRuntime.java
index 965f8074f8014..552e7e72effd8 100644
--- a/coordinator-common/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/coordinator/common/runtime/CoordinatorRuntime.java
+++ b/coordinator-common/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/coordinator/common/runtime/CoordinatorRuntime.java
@@ -833,7 +833,7 @@ private void flushCurrentBatch() {
          */
         private void maybeFlushCurrentBatch(long currentTimeMs) {
             if (currentBatch != null) {
-                if (currentBatch.builder.isTransactional() || (currentBatch.appendTimeMs - currentTimeMs) >= appendLingerMs || !currentBatch.builder.hasRoomFor(0)) {
+                if (currentBatch.builder.isTransactional() || (currentTimeMs - currentBatch.appendTimeMs) >= appendLingerMs || !currentBatch.builder.hasRoomFor(0)) {
                     flushCurrentBatch();
                 }
             }
diff --git a/coordinator-common/src/test/java/org/apache/kafka/coordinator/common/runtime/CoordinatorRuntimeTest.java b/coordinator-common/src/test/java/org/apache/kafka/coordinator/common/runtime/CoordinatorRuntimeTest.java
index dfbbdf048bc20..de1aa21f3f116 100644
--- a/coordinator-common/src/test/java/org/apache/kafka/coordinator/common/runtime/CoordinatorRuntimeTest.java
+++ b/coordinator-common/src/test/java/org/apache/kafka/coordinator/common/runtime/CoordinatorRuntimeTest.java
@@ -4779,6 +4779,7 @@ public void testCompleteTransactionEventCompletesOnlyOnce() throws Exception {
         assertTrue(write1.isCompletedExceptionally());
         verify(runtimeMetrics, times(1)).recordEventPurgatoryTime(writeTimeout.toMillis() + 1L);
     }
+
     @Test
     public void testCoordinatorExecutor() {
         Duration writeTimeout = Duration.ofMillis(1000);
@@ -4866,6 +4867,81 @@ public void testCoordinatorExecutor() {
         assertTrue(write1.isDone());
     }
 
+    @Test
+    public void testLingerTimeComparisonInMaybeFlushCurrentBatch() throws Exception {
+        // Provides the runtime clock; we will advance it.
+        MockTimer clockTimer = new MockTimer();
+        // Used for scheduling timer tasks; we won't advance it to avoid a timer-triggered batch flush.
+        MockTimer schedulerTimer = new MockTimer();
+
+        MockPartitionWriter writer = new MockPartitionWriter();
+
+        CoordinatorRuntime<MockCoordinatorShard, String> runtime =
+            new CoordinatorRuntime.Builder<MockCoordinatorShard, String>()
+                .withTime(clockTimer.time())
+                .withTimer(schedulerTimer)
+                .withDefaultWriteTimeOut(Duration.ofMillis(20))
+                .withLoader(new MockCoordinatorLoader())
+                .withEventProcessor(new DirectEventProcessor())
+                .withPartitionWriter(writer)
+                .withCoordinatorShardBuilderSupplier(new MockCoordinatorShardBuilderSupplier())
+                .withCoordinatorRuntimeMetrics(mock(CoordinatorRuntimeMetrics.class))
+                .withCoordinatorMetrics(mock(CoordinatorMetrics.class))
+                .withSerializer(new StringSerializer())
+                .withAppendLingerMs(10)
+                .withExecutorService(mock(ExecutorService.class))
+                .build();
+
+        // Schedule the loading.
+        runtime.scheduleLoadOperation(TP, 10);
+
+        // Verify the initial state.
+        CoordinatorRuntime<MockCoordinatorShard, String>.CoordinatorContext ctx = runtime.contextOrThrow(TP);
+        assertEquals(ACTIVE, ctx.state);
+        assertNull(ctx.currentBatch);
+
+        // Write #1.
+        CompletableFuture<String> write1 = runtime.scheduleWriteOperation("write#1", TP, Duration.ofMillis(20),
+            state -> new CoordinatorResult<>(List.of("record1"), "response1")
+        );
+        assertFalse(write1.isDone());
+        assertNotNull(ctx.currentBatch);
+        assertEquals(0, writer.entries(TP).size());
+
+        // Verify that the linger timeout task is created; there will also be a default write timeout task.
+        assertEquals(2, schedulerTimer.size());
+
+        // Advance past the linger time.
+        clockTimer.advanceClock(11);
+
+        // At this point, there are still two scheduled tasks; the linger task has not fired
+        // because we did not advance the schedulerTimer.
+        assertEquals(2, schedulerTimer.size());
+
+        // Write #2.
+        CompletableFuture<String> write2 = runtime.scheduleWriteOperation("write#2", TP, Duration.ofMillis(20),
+            state -> new CoordinatorResult<>(List.of("record2"), "response2")
+        );
+
+        // The batch should have been flushed.
+        assertEquals(1, writer.entries(TP).size());
+
+        // Because flushing the batch cancels the linger task, there should now be two write timeout tasks.
+        assertEquals(2, schedulerTimer.size());
+
+        // Verify batch contains both two records
+        MemoryRecords batch = writer.entries(TP).get(0);
+        RecordBatch recordBatch = batch.firstBatch();
+        assertEquals(2, recordBatch.countOrNull());
+
+        // Commit and verify that writes are completed.
+        writer.commit(TP);
+        assertTrue(write1.isDone());
+        assertTrue(write2.isDone());
+        // Now that all scheduled tasks have been cancelled, the scheduler queue should be empty.
+        assertEquals(0, schedulerTimer.size());
+    }
+
     private static <S extends CoordinatorShard<U>, U> ArgumentMatcher<CoordinatorPlayback<U>> coordinatorMatcher(
         CoordinatorRuntime<S, U> runtime,
         TopicPartition tp