xls date conversion error

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#43 xls date conversion error

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Updated: 2005-05-04

Created: 2005-05-04

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the attached zip file contains an excel spreadsheet
which is not converted properly with command line:

xlhtml -xp:0 -csv well.xls

column I and J are displayed as integers. Both Excel
and Open Office Calc 1.9.79 (2.0 beta) display these
colums as dates in dd-mmm-yyyy format.

e.g. I3 is displayed as 29-feb-1960 in Excel and Open
office but output by xlhtml as 21975.

This problem also exists in xls2csv (part of catdoc).