It would be nice if the FME Socrata Reader could be upgraded to extract additional information from the published Socrata datasets such as any calculations / date formatting applied to fields as the data gets published.

Without this awareness, FME users can use FME Socrata Reader to retrieve data from a published Socrata dataset and be completely unaware that some of the fields had date formatting calculations applied at the time of publishing, Therefore the downloaded data does not represent how new data needs to be formatted to republish to that dataset. This only becomes apparent after the FME user finishes their workbench and republishes the dataset only to discover all of the date data has been corrupted.