Some of my features are sent to the DateFormatter with empty values in the formatted attribute, but they come out with today's date. Why does this happen, and how do I stop this?
+19- Safer
The DateFormatter (edit: not DateSetter) is set to use Automatic detection of the date format. When set this way, the transformer tries many different methods to produce a valid date. However one of these methods interprets a blank as the current date. To avoid this, please use specify a date format, or test for blank values before formatting.
daveatsafe wrote:
The DateFormatter (edit: not DateSetter) is set to use Automatic detection of the date format. When set this way, the transformer tries many different methods to produce a valid date. However one of these methods interprets a blank as the current date. To avoid this, please use specify a date format, or test for blank values before formatting.
I was not able to reproduce the issue, with FME 2016.1.3.1. e.g.
Result: the empty attribute has not been touched, "today" has been replaced with today's date.
Attribute(encoded: utf-8): `_date_empty' has value `'
Attribute(encoded: utf-8): `_date_today' has value `20170114'
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