diff --git a/spark-bigquery-connector-common/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/spark/bigquery/SparkBigQueryUtil.java b/spark-bigquery-connector-common/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/spark/bigquery/SparkBigQueryUtil.java
index 5c85098b4..7498079bf 100644
--- a/spark-bigquery-connector-common/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/spark/bigquery/SparkBigQueryUtil.java
+++ b/spark-bigquery-connector-common/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/spark/bigquery/SparkBigQueryUtil.java
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@
 import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableSet;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.io.UncheckedIOException;
+import java.time.Instant;
+import java.time.LocalDate;
 import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
@@ -39,6 +41,7 @@
 import java.util.Properties;
 import java.util.ServiceLoader;
 import java.util.UUID;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 import java.util.stream.Stream;
 import javax.validation.constraints.NotNull;
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
@@ -59,6 +62,9 @@ public class SparkBigQueryUtil {
 
   private static final String SPARK_YARN_TAGS = "spark.yarn.tags";
 
+  private static final long MICROS_PER_SECOND = TimeUnit.SECONDS.toMicros(1);
+  private static final long MIN_SECONDS = Math.floorDiv(Long.MIN_VALUE, MICROS_PER_SECOND);
+
   static final Properties BUILD_PROPERTIES = loadBuildProperties();
 
   static final String CONNECTOR_VERSION = BUILD_PROPERTIES.getProperty("connector.version");
@@ -199,6 +205,20 @@ public static long sparkTimestampToBigQuery(Object sparkValue) {
     if (sparkValue instanceof Long) {
       return ((Number) sparkValue).longValue();
     }
+
+    if (sparkValue instanceof Instant) {
+      Instant instant = (Instant) sparkValue;
+      long epochSeconds = instant.getEpochSecond();
+      if (epochSeconds == MIN_SECONDS) {
+        long us = Math.multiplyExact(epochSeconds + 1, MICROS_PER_SECOND);
+        return Math.addExact(
+            us, TimeUnit.NANOSECONDS.toMicros(instant.getNano()) - MICROS_PER_SECOND);
+      } else {
+        long us = Math.multiplyExact(epochSeconds, MICROS_PER_SECOND);
+        return Math.addExact(us, TimeUnit.NANOSECONDS.toMicros(instant.getNano()));
+      }
+    }
+
     // need to return timestamp in epoch microseconds
     java.sql.Timestamp timestamp = (java.sql.Timestamp) sparkValue;
     long epochMillis = timestamp.getTime();
@@ -210,6 +230,12 @@ public static int sparkDateToBigQuery(Object sparkValue) {
     if (sparkValue instanceof Number) {
       return ((Number) sparkValue).intValue();
     }
+
+    if (sparkValue instanceof LocalDate) {
+      LocalDate localDate = (LocalDate) sparkValue;
+      return Math.toIntExact(localDate.toEpochDay());
+    }
+
     java.sql.Date sparkDate = (java.sql.Date) sparkValue;
     return (int) sparkDate.toLocalDate().toEpochDay();
   }
diff --git a/spark-bigquery-connector-common/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/spark/bigquery/SparkBigQueryUtilTest.java b/spark-bigquery-connector-common/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/spark/bigquery/SparkBigQueryUtilTest.java
index bcd8af7ea..1d3324ccb 100644
--- a/spark-bigquery-connector-common/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/spark/bigquery/SparkBigQueryUtilTest.java
+++ b/spark-bigquery-connector-common/src/test/java/com/google/cloud/spark/bigquery/SparkBigQueryUtilTest.java
@@ -25,6 +25,11 @@
 import com.google.cloud.bigquery.TimePartitioning;
 import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList;
 import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
+import java.sql.Date;
+import java.sql.Timestamp;
+import java.time.Instant;
+import java.time.LocalDate;
+import java.util.TimeZone;
 import org.apache.spark.SparkConf;
 import org.apache.spark.sql.SaveMode;
 import org.apache.spark.sql.SparkSession;
@@ -150,4 +155,23 @@ public void testExtractJobLabels_with_labels() {
     assertThat(labels).containsEntry("dataproc_job_id", "d8f27392957446dbbd7dc28df568e4eb");
     assertThat(labels).containsEntry("dataproc_job_uuid", "df379ef3-eeda-3234-8941-e1a36a1959a3");
   }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testSparkDateToBigQuery() {
+    assertThat(SparkBigQueryUtil.sparkDateToBigQuery(16929L)).isEqualTo(16929L);
+    assertThat(SparkBigQueryUtil.sparkDateToBigQuery(Date.valueOf("2016-05-08"))).isEqualTo(16929);
+    assertThat(SparkBigQueryUtil.sparkDateToBigQuery(LocalDate.of(2016, 5, 8))).isEqualTo(16929);
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testSparkTimestampToBigQuery() {
+    TimeZone.setDefault(TimeZone.getTimeZone("UTC"));
+    assertThat(SparkBigQueryUtil.sparkTimestampToBigQuery(10L)).isEqualTo(10L);
+    assertThat(
+            SparkBigQueryUtil.sparkTimestampToBigQuery(Timestamp.valueOf("2016-05-08 00:00:01.01")))
+        .isEqualTo(1462665601010000L);
+    assertThat(
+            SparkBigQueryUtil.sparkTimestampToBigQuery(Instant.parse("2016-05-08T00:00:01.010Z")))
+        .isEqualTo(1462665601010000L);
+  }
 }