diff --git a/src/main/scala/com/exasol/cloudetl/source/OrcSource.scala b/src/main/scala/com/exasol/cloudetl/source/OrcSource.scala
index 172604d9..caf3f470 100644
--- a/src/main/scala/com/exasol/cloudetl/source/OrcSource.scala
+++ b/src/main/scala/com/exasol/cloudetl/source/OrcSource.scala
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ final case class OrcSource(
     }
 
   private[this] def createReader(): Reader = {
-    val options = OrcFile.readerOptions(conf).filesystem(fileSystem)
+    val options = OrcFile.readerOptions(conf).filesystem(fileSystem).useUTCTimestamp(true)
     try {
       OrcFile.createReader(path, options)
     } catch {
diff --git a/src/test/scala/com/exasol/cloudetl/it/orc/OrcDataImporterIT.scala b/src/test/scala/com/exasol/cloudetl/it/orc/OrcDataImporterIT.scala
index 4e2626b9..e9649574 100644
--- a/src/test/scala/com/exasol/cloudetl/it/orc/OrcDataImporterIT.scala
+++ b/src/test/scala/com/exasol/cloudetl/it/orc/OrcDataImporterIT.scala
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ package com.exasol.cloudetl.orc
 
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.UTF_8
 import java.sql.Timestamp
+import java.time._
 
 import com.exasol.cloudetl.BaseDataImporter
 import com.exasol.matcher.CellMatcherFactory
@@ -145,14 +146,19 @@ class OrcDataImporterIT extends BaseDataImporter {
   }
 
   test("imports timestamp") {
-    val timestamp1 = Timestamp.from(java.time.Instant.EPOCH)
-    val timestamp2 = new Timestamp(System.currentTimeMillis())
+    val millis1 = Instant.EPOCH.toEpochMilli()
+    val millis2 = System.currentTimeMillis()
+    val zdt1 = ZonedDateTime.ofInstant(Instant.ofEpochMilli(millis1), ZoneId.of("Europe/Berlin"))
+    val zdt2 = ZonedDateTime.ofInstant(Instant.ofEpochMilli(millis2), ZoneId.of("Europe/Berlin"))
+    val expectedTimestamp1 = Timestamp.valueOf(zdt1.toLocalDateTime())
+    val expectedTimestamp2 = Timestamp.valueOf(zdt2.toLocalDateTime())
+
     OrcChecker("struct<f:timestamp>", "TIMESTAMP", "timestamp_table")
-      .withInputValues(List(timestamp1, timestamp2, null))
+      .withInputValues(List(new Timestamp(millis1), new Timestamp(millis2), null))
       .assertResultSet(
         table()
-          .row(timestamp1)
-          .row(timestamp2)
+          .row(expectedTimestamp1)
+          .row(expectedTimestamp2)
           .row(null)
           .matches()
       )
diff --git a/src/test/scala/com/exasol/cloudetl/it/timestamp/TimestampWithUTCImportExportIT.scala b/src/test/scala/com/exasol/cloudetl/it/timestamp/TimestampWithUTCImportExportIT.scala
index f84f14c7..276876aa 100644
--- a/src/test/scala/com/exasol/cloudetl/it/timestamp/TimestampWithUTCImportExportIT.scala
+++ b/src/test/scala/com/exasol/cloudetl/it/timestamp/TimestampWithUTCImportExportIT.scala
@@ -12,12 +12,14 @@ import com.exasol.cloudetl.BaseS3IntegrationTest
 import com.exasol.cloudetl.TestFileManager
 import com.exasol.cloudetl.avro.AvroTestDataWriter
 import com.exasol.cloudetl.helper.DateTimeConverter._
+import com.exasol.cloudetl.orc.OrcTestDataWriter
 import com.exasol.cloudetl.parquet.ParquetTestDataWriter
 import com.exasol.dbbuilder.dialects.Table
 import com.exasol.matcher.ResultSetStructureMatcher.table
 
 import org.apache.avro.Schema
 import org.apache.hadoop.fs.{Path => HPath}
+import org.apache.orc.TypeDescription
 import org.apache.parquet.io.api.Binary
 import org.apache.parquet.schema.MessageTypeParser
 import org.hamcrest.Matcher
@@ -181,6 +183,23 @@ class TimestampWithUTCImportExportIT extends BaseS3IntegrationTest with BeforeAn
       )
   }
 
+  test("orc imports timestamp") {
+    val timestamp1 = new Timestamp(Instant.EPOCH.toEpochMilli())
+    val timestamp2 = new Timestamp(System.currentTimeMillis())
+    OrcTimestampWriter("struct<f:timestamp>")
+      .withBucketName("orc-timestamp")
+      .withTableColumnType("TIMESTAMP")
+      .withInputValues(List(timestamp1, timestamp2, null))
+      .verify(
+        table()
+          .row(timestamp1)
+          .row(timestamp2)
+          .row(null)
+          .withUtcCalendar()
+          .matches()
+      )
+  }
+
   trait BaseTimestampWriter {
     private var bucketName: String = _
     private var table: Table = _
@@ -239,4 +258,14 @@ class TimestampWithUTCImportExportIT extends BaseS3IntegrationTest with BeforeAn
     }
   }
 
+  case class OrcTimestampWriter(orcType: String) extends BaseTimestampWriter with OrcTestDataWriter {
+    private val orcSchema = TypeDescription.fromString(orcType)
+    override val dataFormat = "ORC"
+    override val filePath = path
+    def withInputValues[T](values: List[T]): this.type = {
+      writeDataValues(values, this.filePath, this.orcSchema)
+      this
+    }
+  }
+
 }
diff --git a/src/test/scala/com/exasol/cloudetl/orc/OrcTestDataWriter.scala b/src/test/scala/com/exasol/cloudetl/orc/OrcTestDataWriter.scala
index 1e24ff37..27bf83c9 100644
--- a/src/test/scala/com/exasol/cloudetl/orc/OrcTestDataWriter.scala
+++ b/src/test/scala/com/exasol/cloudetl/orc/OrcTestDataWriter.scala
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ trait OrcTestDataWriter {
     val conf = new Configuration()
     conf.set("orc.stripe.size", s"$ORC_STRIPE_SIZE")
     conf.set("orc.block.size", s"$ORC_BLOCK_SIZE")
-    OrcFile.createWriter(path, OrcFile.writerOptions(conf).setSchema(schema))
+    OrcFile.createWriter(path, OrcFile.writerOptions(conf).setSchema(schema).useUTCTimestamp(true))
   }
 
   final def writeDataValues[T](values: List[T], path: HPath, schema: TypeDescription): Unit = {