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Esri ArcGIS Feature Service - Reads Dates as Epoch Milliseconds - follow up question

  • February 8, 2026
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hoskinmi
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Hi there,

I don’t know if I am doing something wrong but I am trying to use the new ESRI ArcGIS Feature Service connection to read a public layer from another organisations AGOL account. I have it working using Standalone Server as the source type. I can’t seem to get it working using the ArcGIS Online source type as I don’t have a login to their AGOL and I don’t need one as it’s public data. I can only login to our own AGOL account.

Anyway I have this working - it’s reading the data but I am now coming across the whole reading dates as Epoc time again and my DateTImeConverter is spitting the dummy.

I have updated the reader to v3.20.1 and I have checked out the article below:

Esri ArcGIS Feature Service - Reads Dates as Epoch Milliseconds | Community

It is showing that you need to change the Date format in the parameters to FME Default however it seems this option only shows when you use ArcGIS Online as the source type. I am not getting that option when using Standalone Server.

Is there another way to connect to public data from another organisations AGOL?  If not can we have this date format option added to the Standalone Server source type as well?

I know it’s public, but I blanked out the url anyway…. don’t know why... just felt like I should… 🤔

 

Best answer by hoskinmi

Ok flag this - I’m just blind. How did I stare at this for so long and not see the option right there in front of me?  It’s going to be a long year….

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  • February 9, 2026

Ok flag this - I’m just blind. How did I stare at this for so long and not see the option right there in front of me?  It’s going to be a long year….