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Timeline in Experience Builder Incorrectly Shows Datetime

AveryBick — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 23:21:31 GMT

Hi, I'm working in experience builder on a page with a timeline to animate a time-enabled layer. In the original feature layer, the Date field is time-enabled and "Date Only".

However, in ArcGIS Experience, the field incorrectly shows as datetime. There is this clunky looking "MM/DD/YYY, HH:MM:SS" label that pops up on the timeline. The original data does not contain any HH:MM:SS data.

The appearance of this label on the timeline makes the Experience look somewhat sloppy and unprofessional.

Is there some way to remove this label on top of the timeline completely, or at least to have Experience correctly recognize the field as date and not datetime? Is this a bug?

Thanks in advance for any help or guidance!

Re: Timeline in Experience Builder Incorrectly Shows Datetime

TimWestern — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 19:07:44 GMT

If its time only or date only, i wonder if its displaying 1980 as if its an epoch date.

Is there an option on the widget to choose the formatting on the .

The other thought that occurs to me is that even if its DATE Only, it still might save as date time, but the time would be 00:00:00 (Assuming UTC time, that 4 PM might be from the timezone offset)

have you already tried what's in here?

https://enterprise.arcgis.com/en/portal/11.3/use/configure-time-mv.htm

I was particularly looking at the section "Configure time slider options in a map"

Unless I'm misreading it, the timeline itself can be hidden, but not the thing at the top that shows the current time entry?

Re: Timeline in Experience Builder Incorrectly Shows Datetime

TonghuiMing — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 06:47:06 GMT

@AveryBick, we have not yet supported the case of the dateOnly field configured as the time extent. Last time I checked, MV also did not support it either. I will keep a note of your case as well can see if we can enhance it soon.

Just to be sure, this is a date-only field, not referring to the MV date format settings, right? It would be nice to have a sample app for us to take a look.

Re: Timeline in Experience Builder Incorrectly Shows Datetime

TonghuiMing — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 08:21:30 GMT

@AveryBick

Per communication with the service team, Date Only fields cannot be used to create time-aware layers - this is their designed behavior (only esriFieldTypeDate and esriFieldTypeTimestampOffset fields can do that), and a clear answer that we've got. Thus, we will not support this in Experience Builder, unfortunately.

If you can configure it in Pro for date-only fields, that would be considered a bug there.

Hope it clarifies things up.

Thank you,

Tonghui