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+
+package org.apache.comet.parquet
+
+import java.sql.Timestamp
+import java.time.LocalDateTime
+
+import org.apache.spark.SparkException
+import org.apache.spark.sql.CometTestBase
+import org.apache.spark.sql.internal.SQLConf
+
+import org.apache.comet.CometConf
+
+/**
+ * Demonstrates the correctness issue tracked in
+ * https://github.com/apache/datafusion-comet/issues/3720: when a Parquet file stores timestamps
+ * as INT96 (Spark's TimestampType, UTC-adjusted local-time semantics) and the read schema
+ * requests TimestampNTZ, the `native_datafusion` scan silently returns wall-clock values that
+ * disagree with what was written. Spark itself raises (SPARK-36182) to prevent the silent
+ * reinterpretation.
+ */
+class ParquetInt96NtzCorrectnessSuite extends CometTestBase {
+  import testImplicits._
+
+  test("INT96 TimestampType read as TimestampNTZ silently returns wrong values") {
+    val sessionTz = "America/Los_Angeles"
+    val written = "2020-01-01 12:00:00"
+
+    withSQLConf(
+      SQLConf.SESSION_LOCAL_TIMEZONE.key -> sessionTz,
+      SQLConf.PARQUET_OUTPUT_TIMESTAMP_TYPE.key -> "INT96",
+      SQLConf.USE_V1_SOURCE_LIST.key -> "parquet") {
+      withTempPath { dir =>
+        val path = dir.getCanonicalPath
+
+        // Write "2020-01-01 12:00:00" America/Los_Angeles as INT96. The bits encode
+        // the UTC instant 2020-01-01 20:00:00; reading back as TimestampType applies
+        // session-TZ adjustment to recover the original local wall-clock value.
+        Seq(Timestamp.valueOf(written)).toDF("ts").write.parquet(path)
+
+        // Reference behavior: Spark refuses to read INT96 as TimestampNTZ
+        // (SPARK-36182) because it cannot safely reinterpret an LTZ instant as NTZ.
+        withSQLConf(CometConf.COMET_ENABLED.key -> "false") {
+          intercept[SparkException] {
+            spark.read.schema("ts timestamp_ntz").parquet(path).collect()
+          }
+        }
+
+        // native_datafusion does not refuse; it silently returns a value that
+        // disagrees with the wall-clock value originally written. This is the
+        // correctness issue the safety-check fallback is intended to prevent.
+        withSQLConf(CometConf.COMET_NATIVE_SCAN_IMPL.key -> CometConf.SCAN_NATIVE_DATAFUSION) {
+          val rows = spark.read.schema("ts timestamp_ntz").parquet(path).collect()
+          assert(rows.length == 1)
+          val actual = rows.head.getAs[LocalDateTime](0)
+          assert(
+            actual != LocalDateTime.parse("2020-01-01T12:00:00"),
+            s"native_datafusion returned the original wall-clock value $actual; " +
+              s"expected a silently-shifted value demonstrating the LTZ->NTZ " +
+              s"correctness divergence (issue #3720 / SPARK-36182).")
+        }
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}