See Importing Excel Files - Date Problem Message #548906.

>Hi
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>I am importing some data from an XLS spreadsheet using the IMPORT command. Unfortunately one of the fields is a date comes through as an number which I assume is some type of julian date but it will not convert using
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SYS(10,[number])
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>eg.
>my number      : SYS(10,37383) returns "//"
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>whereas
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>another number : SYS(10,2452406) returns 05/06/2002

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>I assume this is because my imported number (being much smaller) is "based" differently.
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>Can any one tell me how to correctly convert the IMPORTed number.
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>Regards
>Geoff Scott