Date formatting issue in Generated Excel

Hi All,
I'm generating a report by getting the values from the query and looping over it.
This is my code.
<cfheader name="Content-Disposition" value="inline; filename=testReport.csv">
<cfcontent type="text/x-excel-csv"><cfoutput><cfloop index="i" list="#columnstrings#">"#i#",</cfloop></cfoutput>
<cfoutput QUERY="downloadquery">#chr(13)#<cfloop index="i" list="#columnstrings#">"#replace(evaluate('#i#'),'"',"'","ALL")#",</cfloop></cfoutput>
All the columns are coming perfectly, but the date column is showing 0:00:00 in the generated excel.
The user has to do a manual formatting for the date columns.
We are using coldfusion 9 and Oracle 10G
Any help would be appreciated.
When i check the dump the query, the date columns are coming correctly.
Only the excel does not know that its a date column.

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