diff --git a/addons/web/static/src/js/views/basic/basic_model.js b/addons/web/static/src/js/views/basic/basic_model.js
index 15921f4332e..9d8df720436 100644
--- a/addons/web/static/src/js/views/basic/basic_model.js
+++ b/addons/web/static/src/js/views/basic/basic_model.js
@@ -80,9 +80,9 @@ var AbstractModel = require('web.AbstractModel');
 var concurrency = require('web.concurrency');
 var Context = require('web.Context');
 var data = require('web.data'); // TODO: remove dependency to data.js
+var fieldUtils = require('web.field_utils');
 var pyeval = require('web.pyeval');
 var session = require('web.session');
-var field_utils = require('web.field_utils');
 
 var x2ManyCommands = {
     // (0, _, {values})
@@ -537,10 +537,10 @@ var BasicModel = AbstractModel.extend({
                     });
                 } else if (field.type === 'date') {
                     // process date: convert into Date object
-                    record._changes[name] = field_utils.parse_date(result[name]);
+                    record._changes[name] = fieldUtils.parse_date(result[name]);
                 } else if (field.type === 'datetime') {
                     // process datetime: convert into Date object
-                    record._changes[name] = field_utils.parse_datetime(result[name]);
+                    record._changes[name] = fieldUtils.parse_datetime(result[name]);
                 } else {
                     record._changes[name] = result[name];
                 }
@@ -1278,10 +1278,10 @@ var BasicModel = AbstractModel.extend({
                     }
                 } else if (field.type === 'date') {
                     // process data: convert into Date object
-                    record.data[name] = field_utils.parse_date(val);
+                    record.data[name] = fieldUtils.parse_date(val);
                 } else if (field.type === 'datetime') {
                     // process datetime: convert into Date object
-                    record.data[name] = field_utils.parse_datetime(val);
+                    record.data[name] = fieldUtils.parse_datetime(val);
                 }
             });
         }).then(function () {
@@ -1926,6 +1926,12 @@ var BasicModel = AbstractModel.extend({
 
                         dataPoint.data[name] = r.id;
                     }
+                    if (field.type === 'date') {
+                        dataPoint.data[name] = fieldUtils.parse_date(dataPoint.data[name]);
+                    }
+                    if (field.type === 'datetime') {
+                        dataPoint.data[name] = fieldUtils.parse_datetime(dataPoint.data[name]);
+                    }
                 });
                 return dataPoint.id;
             });
diff --git a/addons/web/static/test/views/basic_model_tests.js b/addons/web/static/test/views/basic_model_tests.js
index b68383fc9ca..2624fb77c8c 100644
--- a/addons/web/static/test/views/basic_model_tests.js
+++ b/addons/web/static/test/views/basic_model_tests.js
@@ -19,10 +19,11 @@ QUnit.module('Views', {
                     product_id: {string: "Favorite product", type: 'many2one', relation: 'product'},
                     product_ids: {string: "Favorite products", type: 'one2many', relation: 'product'},
                     category: {string: "Category M2M", type: 'many2many', relation: 'partner_type'},
+                    date: {string: "Date Field", type: 'date'},
                 },
                 records: [
-                    {id: 1, foo: 'blip', bar: 1, product_id: 37, category: [12], display_name: "first partner"},
-                    {id: 2, foo: 'gnap', bar: 2, product_id: 41, display_name: "second partner"},
+                    {id: 1, foo: 'blip', bar: 1, product_id: 37, category: [12], display_name: "first partner", date: "2017-01-25"},
+                    {id: 2, foo: 'gnap', bar: 2, product_id: 41, display_name: "second partner", date: "2017-01-26"},
                 ],
                 onchanges: {},
             },
@@ -717,5 +718,29 @@ QUnit.module('Views', {
 
     });
 
-});
-});
+    QUnit.test('dates are properly loaded and parsed', function (assert) {
+        assert.expect(1);
+
+
+        var model = createModel({
+            Model: BasicModel,
+            data: this.data,
+        });
+
+        var params = {
+            fieldNames: ['date'],
+            fields: this.data.partner.fields,
+            modelName: 'partner',
+            type: 'list',
+        };
+
+        model.load(params).then(function (resultID) {
+            var record = model.get(resultID);
+            var firstRecord = record.data[0];
+            assert.ok(firstRecord.data.date instanceof moment,
+                "fetched date field should have been formatted");
+        });
+    });
+
+
+});});