Converting formatted excel date to useful data in labview

I am using the report generation toolkit for Office, and reading an excel file. All the data comes back fine, except for the date column. In excel the column is formatted as a date (ex. 5/5/05) but when it comes through in labview it ends up being something like "37740", it's the same effect if you switch the format in excel to general, the date changes to a number. Is there anyway to leave the formatting the way it is in Excel and still bring into labview a useful date, or would I have to format the excel file differently?
Thanks.

I think I have it figured out using the Excel serial number date. I attached a vi of something I threw together quickly to convert excel date serial numbers to labview date info. I'm not 100% if it works all the time, but the few examples I tried worked fine.
Attachments:
Excel date to labview date.vi ‏53 KB

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