diff --git a/backends-velox/src/test/scala/org/apache/gluten/execution/ScalarFunctionsValidateSuite.scala b/backends-velox/src/test/scala/org/apache/gluten/execution/ScalarFunctionsValidateSuite.scala
index 0d0607d3b93e..94c69abd8d32 100644
--- a/backends-velox/src/test/scala/org/apache/gluten/execution/ScalarFunctionsValidateSuite.scala
+++ b/backends-velox/src/test/scala/org/apache/gluten/execution/ScalarFunctionsValidateSuite.scala
@@ -1515,4 +1515,19 @@ abstract class ScalarFunctionsValidateSuite extends FunctionsValidateSuite {
       }
     }
   }
+
+  test("date_format") {
+    withTempPath {
+      path =>
+        val t1 = Timestamp.valueOf("2024-08-22 10:10:10.010")
+        val t2 = Timestamp.valueOf("2014-12-31 00:00:00.012")
+        val t3 = Timestamp.valueOf("1968-12-31 23:59:59.001")
+        Seq(t1, t2, t3).toDF("c0").write.parquet(path.getCanonicalPath)
+
+        spark.read.parquet(path.getCanonicalPath).createOrReplaceTempView("t")
+        runQueryAndCompare("SELECT date_format(c0, 'yyyy') FROM t") {
+          checkGlutenOperatorMatch[ProjectExecTransformer]
+        }
+    }
+  }
 }
diff --git a/cpp/velox/substrait/SubstraitParser.cc b/cpp/velox/substrait/SubstraitParser.cc
index 006a20c232ea..bdbcc2785ded 100644
--- a/cpp/velox/substrait/SubstraitParser.cc
+++ b/cpp/velox/substrait/SubstraitParser.cc
@@ -404,7 +404,6 @@ std::unordered_map<std::string, std::string> SubstraitParser::substraitVeloxFunc
     {"murmur3hash", "hash_with_seed"},
     {"xxhash64", "xxhash64_with_seed"},
     {"modulus", "remainder"},
-    {"date_format", "format_datetime"},
     {"negative", "unaryminus"},
     {"get_array_item", "get"}};