Reading Date Value

```
I have a spreadsheet with date values in a column. However phpexcel is
returning a string value instead.

For example, 24/08/2009 returns 40049. Even typing the date value in other
format like 08/04/2009 returns 40049.

```

Original issue reported on code.google.com by `mrp...@gmail.com` on 28 Aug 2009 at 3:20

Start by reproducing the reported spreadsheet date values and inspect the library's date-reading path. Verify how values such as 40049 are interpreted and define done as returning the expected date representation instead of the spreadsheet serial value.

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