diff --git a/src/main/java/eu/europa/ted/efx/sdk1/EfxTemplateTranslatorV1.java b/src/main/java/eu/europa/ted/efx/sdk1/EfxTemplateTranslatorV1.java
index 983a397..73d1ff9 100644
--- a/src/main/java/eu/europa/ted/efx/sdk1/EfxTemplateTranslatorV1.java
+++ b/src/main/java/eu/europa/ted/efx/sdk1/EfxTemplateTranslatorV1.java
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 import eu.europa.ted.efx.model.Context.FieldContext;
 import eu.europa.ted.efx.model.Context.NodeContext;
 import eu.europa.ted.efx.model.expressions.Expression;
+import eu.europa.ted.efx.model.expressions.TypedExpression;
 import eu.europa.ted.efx.model.expressions.path.PathExpression;
 import eu.europa.ted.efx.model.expressions.path.StringPathExpression;
 import eu.europa.ted.efx.model.expressions.scalar.StringExpression;
@@ -33,6 +34,7 @@
 import eu.europa.ted.efx.model.templates.ContentBlock;
 import eu.europa.ted.efx.model.templates.ContentBlockStack;
 import eu.europa.ted.efx.model.templates.Markup;
+import eu.europa.ted.efx.model.types.EfxDataType;
 import eu.europa.ted.efx.model.variables.Variable;
 import eu.europa.ted.efx.model.variables.VariableList;
 import eu.europa.ted.efx.sdk1.EfxParser.AssetIdContext;
@@ -426,7 +428,20 @@ public void exitAssetId(AssetIdContext ctx) {
    */
   @Override
   public void exitStandardExpressionBlock(StandardExpressionBlockContext ctx) {
-    this.stack.push(this.stack.pop(Expression.class));
+    var expression = this.stack.pop(Expression.class);
+
+    // This is a hack to make sure that the date and time expressions are rendered in the correct
+    // format. We had to do this because EFX 1 does not support the format-date() and format-time()
+    // functions.
+    if (TypedExpression.class.isAssignableFrom(expression.getClass())) {
+      if (EfxDataType.Date.class.isAssignableFrom(((TypedExpression) expression).getDataType())) {
+        expression = new StringExpression("format-date(" + expression.getScript() + ", '[D01]/[M01]/[Y0001]')");
+      } else if (EfxDataType.Time.class.isAssignableFrom(((TypedExpression) expression).getDataType())) {
+        expression = new StringExpression("format-time(" + expression.getScript() + ", '[H01]:[m01] [Z]')");
+      }
+    }
+
+    this.stack.push(expression);
   }
 
   /***
diff --git a/src/test/java/eu/europa/ted/efx/sdk1/EfxTemplateTranslatorV1Test.java b/src/test/java/eu/europa/ted/efx/sdk1/EfxTemplateTranslatorV1Test.java
index 7d3b3d9..f002a9c 100644
--- a/src/test/java/eu/europa/ted/efx/sdk1/EfxTemplateTranslatorV1Test.java
+++ b/src/test/java/eu/europa/ted/efx/sdk1/EfxTemplateTranslatorV1Test.java
@@ -343,4 +343,14 @@ void testEndOfLineComments() {
         "let block01() -> { label(concat('field', '|', 'name', '|', 'BT-00-Text'))text(' ')text('blah blah') }\nfor-each(/*).call(block01())",
         translateTemplate("{ND-Root} #{name|BT-00-Text} blah blah // comment blah blah"));
   }
+
+  @Test
+  void testImplicitFormatting_Dates() {
+    assertEquals("let block01() -> { eval(format-date(PathNode/StartDateField/xs:date(text()), '[D01]/[M01]/[Y0001]')) }\nfor-each(/*).call(block01())", translateTemplate("{ND-Root} ${BT-00-StartDate}"));
+  } 
+
+  @Test
+  void testImplicitFormatting_Times() {
+    assertEquals("let block01() -> { eval(format-time(PathNode/StartTimeField/xs:time(text()), '[H01]:[m01] [Z]')) }\nfor-each(/*).call(block01())", translateTemplate("{ND-Root} ${BT-00-StartTime}"));
+  } 
 }