I'm using VFP8 to Append From an XLS file. This Excel file has a date field formatted as:

August 4, 2003

I create a VFP import cursor and import as follows:
CREATE CURSOR cimport ( mydate C(20) )
APPEND FROM myxls.xls TYPE XL8

This works except that the date column in my cursor displays as
37837 (todays date), instead of August 4, 2003.

Is there a function to convert this date format into a VFP format?

Thanks,

Jerry