>I have an Excel sheet with several columns of dates.
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>When I import the file into VFP (or save as DBF) the dates are converted to a number.
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>The dates do not appear to be julian date because 04/30/99 translates to 36297
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>If you do ? sys(10,36297) it converts to a blank date.
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>? sys(1) gives a date number of 2453439 for today.
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>How can I convert 36297 to 04/30/99 ?

What version of Excel are the sheets stored as? Which command are you using to import?

As I remember it, this is a problem with earlier versions of Excel, but should work for later versions.

Tamar