diff --git a/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/format/converter/ParquetMetadataConverter.java b/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/format/converter/ParquetMetadataConverter.java
index ef59760640..c4e5da3da7 100644
--- a/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/format/converter/ParquetMetadataConverter.java
+++ b/parquet-hadoop/src/main/java/org/apache/parquet/format/converter/ParquetMetadataConverter.java
@@ -495,7 +495,6 @@ private static SortOrder defaultSortOrder(PrimitiveTypeName primitive) {
         return SortOrder.SIGNED;
       case BINARY:
       case FIXED_LEN_BYTE_ARRAY:
-      case INT96: // only used for timestamp, which uses unsigned values
         return SortOrder.UNSIGNED;
     }
     return SortOrder.UNKNOWN;