diff --git a/bigquery-connector-common/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/connector/common/BigQueryUtil.java b/bigquery-connector-common/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/connector/common/BigQueryUtil.java
index 52bea1c83..266b01ad0 100644
--- a/bigquery-connector-common/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/connector/common/BigQueryUtil.java
+++ b/bigquery-connector-common/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/connector/common/BigQueryUtil.java
@@ -339,10 +339,13 @@ && typeWriteable(sourceField.getType(), destinationField.getType())
   }
 
   // allowing widening narrow numeric into bignumeric
+  // allowing writing long to time
   @VisibleForTesting
   static boolean typeWriteable(LegacySQLTypeName sourceType, LegacySQLTypeName destinationType) {
     return (sourceType.equals(LegacySQLTypeName.NUMERIC)
             && destinationType.equals(LegacySQLTypeName.BIGNUMERIC))
+        || (sourceType.equals(LegacySQLTypeName.INTEGER)
+            && destinationType.equals(LegacySQLTypeName.TIME))
         || sourceType.equals(destinationType);
   }
 
diff --git a/spark-bigquery-connector-common/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/spark/bigquery/integration/WriteIntegrationTestBase.java b/spark-bigquery-connector-common/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/spark/bigquery/integration/WriteIntegrationTestBase.java
index d02dc75fe..6fde1575e 100644
--- a/spark-bigquery-connector-common/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/spark/bigquery/integration/WriteIntegrationTestBase.java
+++ b/spark-bigquery-connector-common/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/spark/bigquery/integration/WriteIntegrationTestBase.java
@@ -1209,6 +1209,43 @@ public void testWriteNumericsToWiderFields() throws Exception {
         .isEqualTo(new BigDecimal("12345.123450000000000"));
   }
 
+  @Test
+  public void testWriteLongToTimeField() throws Exception {
+    IntegrationTestUtils.runQuery(
+        String.format(
+            "CREATE TABLE `%s.%s` (name STRING, wake_up_time TIME)",
+            testDataset, testTable));
+    String name = "abc";
+    Long wakeUpTime = 36000000000L;
+    Dataset<Row> df =
+        spark.createDataFrame(
+            Arrays.asList(RowFactory.create(name, wakeUpTime)),
+            structType(
+                StructField.apply("name", DataTypes.StringType, true, Metadata.empty()),
+                StructField.apply("wake_up_time", DataTypes.LongType, true, Metadata.empty())));
+    df.write()
+        .format("bigquery")
+        .mode(SaveMode.Append)
+        .option("dataset", testDataset.toString())
+        .option("table", testTable)
+        .option("temporaryGcsBucket", TestConstants.TEMPORARY_GCS_BUCKET)
+        .option("writeMethod", writeMethod.toString())
+        .save();
+
+    Dataset<Row> resultDF =
+        spark
+            .read()
+            .format("bigquery")
+            .option("dataset", testDataset.toString())
+            .option("table", testTable)
+            .load();
+    List<Row> result = resultDF.collectAsList();
+    assertThat(result).hasSize(1);
+    Row head = result.get(0);
+    assertThat(head.getString(head.fieldIndex("name"))).isEqualTo("abc");
+    assertThat(head.getString(head.fieldIndex("wake_up_time"))).isEqualTo(36000000000L);
+  }
+
   public void testWriteSchemaSubset() throws Exception {
     StructType initialSchema =
         structType(