Is the field in the table set to Date type? The value you are seeing are days since 19-Oct-1992 (which is a truly odd start date for Excel).

>i want to import a Excel file ( appe from FILE type xl5 ), but i can't get a column with DATE records.
>exp. the date on Excel is 01/01/99, but after the record transfer to dbase will store with 38789. What can i do ??