diff --git a/integration/test_filesystems_integration.py b/integration/test_filesystems_integration.py
index 58f3b33d..afb1b60f 100644
--- a/integration/test_filesystems_integration.py
+++ b/integration/test_filesystems_integration.py
@@ -278,7 +278,7 @@ def test_write_to_parquet_to_v3io_single_file_on_termination(setup_teardown_test
     controller.await_termination()
 
     read_back_df = pd.read_parquet(out_file, columns=columns)
-    assert read_back_df.equals(expected), f"{read_back_df}\n!=\n{expected}"
+    pd.testing.assert_frame_equal(read_back_df, expected)
 
 
 # ML-775
@@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ def test_write_to_parquet_key_hash_partitioning(setup_teardown_test):
     read_back_df["hash4_key"] = read_back_df["hash4_key"].astype("int64")
     read_back_df.sort_values("my_int", inplace=True)
     read_back_df.reset_index(inplace=True, drop=True)
-    assert read_back_df.equals(expected), f"{read_back_df}\n!=\n{expected}"
+    pd.testing.assert_frame_equal(read_back_df, expected)
 
 
 # ML-701
@@ -318,12 +318,12 @@ def test_write_to_parquet_to_v3io_force_string_to_timestamp(setup_teardown_test)
         t = "2021-03-02T19:45:00"
         controller.emit([t])
         expected.append([datetime.datetime.fromisoformat(t)])
-    expected = pd.DataFrame(expected, columns=columns)
+    expected = pd.DataFrame(expected, columns=columns).astype("datetime64[us]")
     controller.terminate()
     controller.await_termination()
 
     read_back_df = pd.read_parquet(out_file, columns=columns)
-    assert read_back_df.equals(expected)
+    pd.testing.assert_frame_equal(read_back_df, expected)
 
 
 def test_write_to_parquet_to_v3io_with_indices(setup_teardown_test):
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ def test_write_to_parquet_to_v3io_with_indices(setup_teardown_test):
     controller.await_termination()
 
     read_back_df = pd.read_parquet(out_file, columns=columns)
-    assert read_back_df.equals(expected), f"{read_back_df}\n!=\n{expected}"
+    pd.testing.assert_frame_equal(read_back_df, expected)
 
 
 # ML-602
diff --git a/storey/targets.py b/storey/targets.py
index 7590c5bf..491370d0 100644
--- a/storey/targets.py
+++ b/storey/targets.py
@@ -645,7 +645,8 @@ async def _emit(self, batch, batch_key, batch_time, batch_events, last_event_tim
             kwargs = {}
             if self._schema is not None:
                 kwargs["schema"] = self._schema
-            df.to_parquet(path=file, index=bool(self._index_cols), **kwargs)
+            # version set for pyspark compatibility, and is needed as of pyarrow 13 due to timestamp incompatibility
+            df.to_parquet(path=file, index=bool(self._index_cols), version="2.4", **kwargs)
             if not self._last_written_event or last_event_time > self._last_written_event:
                 self._last_written_event = last_event_time
 
diff --git a/tests/test_flow.py b/tests/test_flow.py
index 0a402d21..5844dd7f 100644
--- a/tests/test_flow.py
+++ b/tests/test_flow.py
@@ -2539,7 +2539,7 @@ def test_write_to_parquet_string_as_datetime(tmpdir):
         expected.append([i, f"this is {i}", my_time.isoformat(sep=" ")])
     expected_df = pd.DataFrame(expected, columns=columns)
     expected_df["my_int"] = expected_df["my_int"].astype("int8")
-    expected_df["my_datetime"] = expected_df["my_datetime"].astype("datetime64[ns]")
+    expected_df["my_datetime"] = expected_df["my_datetime"].astype("datetime64[us]")
     controller.terminate()
     controller.await_termination()