diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 67093a6fc5..c717985b2e 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -521,7 +521,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "num-integer",
  "num-traits",
  "serde",
- "time 0.1.44",
+ "time",
  "wasm-bindgen",
  "winapi",
 ]
@@ -3062,15 +3062,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "libc",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "num_threads"
-version = "0.1.6"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "2819ce041d2ee131036f4fc9d6ae7ae125a3a40e97ba64d04fe799ad9dabbb44"
-dependencies = [
- "libc",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "object"
 version = "0.29.0"
@@ -4195,11 +4186,12 @@ dependencies = [
 [[package]]
 name = "rskafka"
 version = "0.3.0"
-source = "git+https://github.com/influxdata/rskafka.git?rev=59295beeae2106c2536008065e171dd88fd1c64e#59295beeae2106c2536008065e171dd88fd1c64e"
+source = "git+https://github.com/influxdata/rskafka.git?rev=3208e4742f08048bbab4e8fc4e0a775507fe3e66#3208e4742f08048bbab4e8fc4e0a775507fe3e66"
 dependencies = [
  "async-socks5",
  "async-trait",
  "bytes",
+ "chrono",
  "crc32c",
  "futures",
  "integer-encoding 3.0.4",
@@ -4208,7 +4200,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "rand",
  "snap",
  "thiserror",
- "time 0.3.14",
  "tokio",
  "tracing",
 ]
@@ -5105,16 +5096,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "winapi",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "time"
-version = "0.3.14"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "3c3f9a28b618c3a6b9251b6908e9c99e04b9e5c02e6581ccbb67d59c34ef7f9b"
-dependencies = [
- "libc",
- "num_threads",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "tiny-keccak"
 version = "2.0.2"
diff --git a/write_buffer/Cargo.toml b/write_buffer/Cargo.toml
index 39a62375ab..a799657291 100644
--- a/write_buffer/Cargo.toml
+++ b/write_buffer/Cargo.toml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ observability_deps = { path = "../observability_deps" }
 parking_lot = "0.12"
 pin-project = "1.0"
 prost = "0.11"
-rskafka = { git = "https://github.com/influxdata/rskafka.git", rev="59295beeae2106c2536008065e171dd88fd1c64e", default-features = false, features = ["compression-snappy", "transport-socks5"] }
+rskafka = { git = "https://github.com/influxdata/rskafka.git", rev="3208e4742f08048bbab4e8fc4e0a775507fe3e66", default-features = false, features = ["compression-snappy", "transport-socks5"] }
 schema = { path = "../schema" }
 tokio = { version = "1.21", features = ["fs", "macros", "parking_lot", "rt", "sync", "time"] }
 tokio-util = "0.7.3"
diff --git a/write_buffer/src/kafka/instrumentation.rs b/write_buffer/src/kafka/instrumentation.rs
index 55547e4d9c..283dc281fd 100644
--- a/write_buffer/src/kafka/instrumentation.rs
+++ b/write_buffer/src/kafka/instrumentation.rs
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ mod tests {
     use iox_time::Time;
     use metric::Metric;
     use parking_lot::Mutex;
-    use rskafka::time::OffsetDateTime;
+    use rskafka::chrono::{self, Utc};
 
     use super::*;
 
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ mod tests {
             key: Some("bananas".into()),
             value: None,
             headers: Default::default(),
-            timestamp: OffsetDateTime::UNIX_EPOCH,
+            timestamp: chrono::DateTime::<Utc>::MIN_UTC,
         };
 
         wrapper
diff --git a/write_buffer/src/kafka/mod.rs b/write_buffer/src/kafka/mod.rs
index 0d58eb9932..e5903f8905 100644
--- a/write_buffer/src/kafka/mod.rs
+++ b/write_buffer/src/kafka/mod.rs
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ use rskafka::{
     client::{
         consumer::{StartOffset, StreamConsumerBuilder},
         error::{Error as RSKafkaError, ProtocolError, RequestContext, ServerErrorResponse},
-        partition::{OffsetAt, PartitionClient},
+        partition::{OffsetAt, PartitionClient, UnknownTopicHandling},
         producer::{BatchProducer, BatchProducerBuilder},
         ClientBuilder,
     },
@@ -189,10 +189,7 @@ async fn try_decode(
             sequence_number: SequenceNumber::new(record.offset),
         };
 
-        let timestamp_nanos = i64::try_from(record.record.timestamp.unix_timestamp_nanos())
-            .map_err(WriteBufferError::invalid_data)?;
-
-        let timestamp = Time::from_timestamp_nanos(timestamp_nanos);
+        let timestamp = Time::from_date_time(record.record.timestamp);
 
         let value = record
             .record
@@ -478,7 +475,9 @@ async fn setup_topic(
                         let topic_name = topic_name.clone();
                         async move {
                             let shard_index = ShardIndex::new(p);
-                            let c = client_ref.partition_client(&topic_name, p).await?;
+                            let c = client_ref
+                                .partition_client(&topic_name, p, UnknownTopicHandling::Error)
+                                .await?;
                             Result::<_, WriteBufferError>::Ok((shard_index, c))
                         }
                     }),
@@ -689,7 +688,11 @@ mod tests {
             .build()
             .await
             .unwrap()
-            .partition_client(ctx.topic_name.clone(), shard_index.get())
+            .partition_client(
+                ctx.topic_name.clone(),
+                shard_index.get(),
+                UnknownTopicHandling::Retry,
+            )
             .await
             .unwrap()
             .produce(
@@ -697,7 +700,7 @@ mod tests {
                     key: None,
                     value: None,
                     headers: Default::default(),
-                    timestamp: rskafka::time::OffsetDateTime::now_utc(),
+                    timestamp: rskafka::chrono::Utc::now(),
                 }],
                 Compression::NoCompression,
             )
diff --git a/write_buffer/src/kafka/record_aggregator.rs b/write_buffer/src/kafka/record_aggregator.rs
index 11d0264a3f..23cc68aefd 100644
--- a/write_buffer/src/kafka/record_aggregator.rs
+++ b/write_buffer/src/kafka/record_aggregator.rs
@@ -97,9 +97,7 @@ impl RecordAggregator {
                 .headers()
                 .map(|(k, v)| (k.to_owned(), v.as_bytes().to_vec()))
                 .collect(),
-            timestamp: rskafka::time::OffsetDateTime::from_unix_timestamp_nanos(
-                now.date_time().timestamp_nanos() as i128,
-            )?,
+            timestamp: now.date_time(),
         };
 
         Ok((record, now))
@@ -284,7 +282,7 @@ mod tests {
             Vec::<u8>::from(NAMESPACE),
         );
         assert!(record.headers.get(HEADER_TRACE_CONTEXT).is_some());
-        assert_eq!(record.timestamp.unix_timestamp(), 1659990497);
+        assert_eq!(record.timestamp.timestamp(), 1659990497);
 
         // Extract the DmlMeta from the de-aggregator
         let got = deagg