A date problem on my Google Calendar workflow

[yunus_emre1]

I’m experiencing an issue with the AI Agent when creating Google Calendar events from natural language inputs.

Scenario:

• I use the AI Agent to parse event descriptions and extract details like title, description, start/end time, and location.

• For absolute dates (e.g., “17 September 2025”, “20 October”), the events are created correctly in Google Calendar.

• However, for relative dates (e.g., “next Wednesday”, “next Monday”, “tomorrow”), the AI Agent always defaults the year to 2024, even though the current year is 2025.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Provide an input like: “next Wednesday at 15:00 meeting with Ahmet”.

2. The AI Agent creates the event, but the start.dateTime is set to 2024 instead of the current year.

Additional Information:

• The summary/title is correctly generated.

• Timezones are set correctly in n8n.

• I tried instructing the AI Agent in the prompt to always use the current system year, but it still defaults to 2024 for relative dates.

Expected behavior:

• The AI Agent should convert relative dates to absolute ISO 8601 dates using the current system year if no year is explicitly provided.

Workflow:

[krisn0x]

Hey, you can generate current time in an Edit Fields node before the AI, and pass it’s value at the top of the prompt with {{$json.time}}. Here is the Edit Fields node:

Please mark this reply as Solution if it helped

[yunus_emre1]

You’re life saver ! Thank you so much !
I’m beginner, can you recommend me some youtube channels to learn more

[krisn0x]

I definitely recommend taking the n8n courses here:

Text courses | n8n Docs

Also the video courses:

Video courses | n8n Docs

[yunus_emre1]

Thank you again ! I appreciate it

[Parintele_Damaskin]

Or in the system prompt of the ai agent you can add Today is {{ $date }} or {{ time }} .

Like that ai is aware…