That should work. I wonder if there is something else going wrong. Are there any warnings or errors in the Translation Log?

Hello hkingsbury, 

Thank you for your reaction. No, FME does not give any error messages. Or could it be that the time/date of our system is not set correctly? I live in the Netherlands. Time zone on our system is (UTC+1:00)

I have set the attribute creator like this (date field: beginGeldigheid)

What version of FME are you using? It’s working fine for me in 2023.1

See an attached example

We are using version FME 2022.2.6.0 (20230523 - Build 22800).Seems to be a little older than the version you have.I haven't been working with FME for long. How can I open the attached example? I now get the following and I don't know how to link the creator to my dataset.

Not to worry, ignore that attachment. Can you try removing the DateTimeFormat function and running it again with the value ‘20240101’ (in your original workspace, not the one I posted)



Slight tangent explaining the screenshot

Transformers have versions, and between workbench/form versions, these will sometimes get updated. You would’ve got some sort of warning about opening a newer workbench in an older version of FME. There should be an attribute creator in between the creator and writer. This indicates that the version of the creator and the writer is the same in 2022.2 and 2023.1 but the attribute creator has been updated between those versions, so the older version can’t find it