diff --git a/backends-velox/src/test/scala/org/apache/gluten/execution/MiscOperatorSuite.scala b/backends-velox/src/test/scala/org/apache/gluten/execution/MiscOperatorSuite.scala
index 9fbd99752ed4..fec55eff09e8 100644
--- a/backends-velox/src/test/scala/org/apache/gluten/execution/MiscOperatorSuite.scala
+++ b/backends-velox/src/test/scala/org/apache/gluten/execution/MiscOperatorSuite.scala
@@ -1910,6 +1910,14 @@ class MiscOperatorSuite extends VeloxWholeStageTransformerSuite with AdaptiveSpa
     assert(plan2.find(_.isInstanceOf[ProjectExecTransformer]).isDefined)
   }
 
+  test("cast date to timestamp with GMT session timezone") {
+    withSQLConf(SQLConf.SESSION_LOCAL_TIMEZONE.key -> "GMT") {
+      runQueryAndCompare("SELECT cast(date'2023-01-02 01:01:01' as timestamp) as ts") {
+        checkGlutenPlan[ProjectExecTransformer]
+      }
+    }
+  }
+
   test("cast timestamp to date") {
     val query = "select cast(ts as date) from values (timestamp'2024-01-01 00:00:00') as tab(ts)"
     runQueryAndCompare(query) {
diff --git a/cpp/core/config/GlutenConfig.cc b/cpp/core/config/GlutenConfig.cc
index 0afd458ee636..eb98f6bb9036 100644
--- a/cpp/core/config/GlutenConfig.cc
+++ b/cpp/core/config/GlutenConfig.cc
@@ -49,6 +49,17 @@ parseConfMap(JNIEnv* env, const uint8_t* planData, const int32_t planDataLength)
   return sparkConfs;
 }
 
+std::string normalizeSessionTimezone(std::string_view sessionTimezone) {
+  if (sessionTimezone == "GMT") {
+    return "UTC";
+  }
+  if (sessionTimezone.size() > 3 && sessionTimezone.substr(0, 3) == "GMT" &&
+      (sessionTimezone[3] == '+' || sessionTimezone[3] == '-')) {
+    return std::string("UTC").append(sessionTimezone.substr(3));
+  }
+  return std::string(sessionTimezone);
+}
+
 std::string printConfig(const std::unordered_map<std::string, std::string>& conf) {
   std::ostringstream oss;
   oss << std::endl;
diff --git a/cpp/core/config/GlutenConfig.h b/cpp/core/config/GlutenConfig.h
index a082a720eadd..2b8ba54595ba 100644
--- a/cpp/core/config/GlutenConfig.h
+++ b/cpp/core/config/GlutenConfig.h
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 #include <jni.h>
 #include <cstdint>
 #include <string>
+#include <string_view>
 #include <unordered_map>
 
 namespace gluten {
@@ -102,5 +103,7 @@ const std::string kDebugCudfDefault = "false";
 std::unordered_map<std::string, std::string>
 parseConfMap(JNIEnv* env, const uint8_t* planData, const int32_t planDataLength);
 
+std::string normalizeSessionTimezone(std::string_view sessionTimezone);
+
 std::string printConfig(const std::unordered_map<std::string, std::string>& conf);
 } // namespace gluten
diff --git a/cpp/velox/compute/WholeStageResultIterator.cc b/cpp/velox/compute/WholeStageResultIterator.cc
index 3c0505263159..1806bfdd623a 100644
--- a/cpp/velox/compute/WholeStageResultIterator.cc
+++ b/cpp/velox/compute/WholeStageResultIterator.cc
@@ -575,7 +575,8 @@ std::unordered_map<std::string, std::string> WholeStageResultIterator::getQueryC
       std::to_string(veloxCfg_->get<uint64_t>(kVeloxPreferredBatchBytes, 10L << 20));
   try {
     configs[velox::core::QueryConfig::kSparkAnsiEnabled] = veloxCfg_->get<std::string>(kAnsiEnabled, "false");
-    configs[velox::core::QueryConfig::kSessionTimezone] = veloxCfg_->get<std::string>(kSessionTimezone, "");
+    configs[velox::core::QueryConfig::kSessionTimezone] =
+        normalizeSessionTimezone(veloxCfg_->get<std::string>(kSessionTimezone, ""));
     // Adjust timestamp according to the above configured session timezone.
     configs[velox::core::QueryConfig::kAdjustTimestampToTimezone] = "true";
 
diff --git a/cpp/velox/substrait/SubstraitToVeloxPlanValidator.h b/cpp/velox/substrait/SubstraitToVeloxPlanValidator.h
index 8afc7c5bf8b2..6bfca5ec36b8 100644
--- a/cpp/velox/substrait/SubstraitToVeloxPlanValidator.h
+++ b/cpp/velox/substrait/SubstraitToVeloxPlanValidator.h
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ class SubstraitToVeloxPlanValidator {
  public:
   SubstraitToVeloxPlanValidator(memory::MemoryPool* pool) {
     std::unordered_map<std::string, std::string> configs{
-        {velox::core::QueryConfig::kSparkPartitionId, "0"}, {velox::core::QueryConfig::kSessionTimezone, "GMT"}};
+        {velox::core::QueryConfig::kSparkPartitionId, "0"}, {velox::core::QueryConfig::kSessionTimezone, "UTC"}};
     veloxCfg_ = std::make_shared<facebook::velox::config::ConfigBase>(std::move(configs));
     planConverter_ = std::make_unique<SubstraitToVeloxPlanConverter>(
         pool, veloxCfg_.get(), std::vector<std::shared_ptr<ResultIterator>>{}, std::nullopt, std::nullopt, true);
diff --git a/cpp/velox/utils/VeloxWriterUtils.cc b/cpp/velox/utils/VeloxWriterUtils.cc
index 026418a223c4..bd3cca685411 100644
--- a/cpp/velox/utils/VeloxWriterUtils.cc
+++ b/cpp/velox/utils/VeloxWriterUtils.cc
@@ -89,7 +89,9 @@ std::unique_ptr<WriterOptions> makeParquetWriteOption(const std::unordered_map<s
   writeOption->flushPolicyFactory = [maxRowGroupRows, maxRowGroupBytes]() {
     return std::make_unique<LambdaFlushPolicy>(maxRowGroupRows, maxRowGroupBytes, [&]() { return false; });
   };
-  writeOption->parquetWriteTimestampTimeZone = getConfigValue(sparkConfs, kSessionTimezone, std::nullopt);
+  if (auto it = sparkConfs.find(kSessionTimezone); it != sparkConfs.end()) {
+    writeOption->parquetWriteTimestampTimeZone = normalizeSessionTimezone(it->second);
+  }
   writeOption->arrowMemoryPool =
       getDefaultMemoryManager()->getOrCreateArrowMemoryPool("VeloxParquetWrite.ArrowMemoryPool");
   if (auto it = sparkConfs.find(kParquetDataPageSize); it != sparkConfs.end()) {