Number to Date conversion

Hi, in my answers report date is displaying as 20,071,224.0 , i want to convert this number to Date format like MM-DD-YYYY, this is not a Time Dimension. do we need to convert this column in RPD or can we do it from Answers, Please help me on this.
OBIEE 10.1.3.4.1

i tried using to the below similar query but getting the following error
State: HY000. Code: 10058. [NQODBC] [SQL_STATE: HY000] [nQSError: 10058] A general error has occurred. [nQSError: 17001] Oracle Error code: 12801, message: ORA-12801: error signaled in parallel query server P041, instance omidrl020:DOBI1 (1) ORA-01861: literal does not match format string at OCI call OCIStmtExecute
[nQSError: 10058] A general error has occurred. [nQSError: 22025] Function Cast is called with an incompatible type. (HY000)
SQL Issued: SELECT "PT"."PT Description", "PT"."QTD Pay Item Amount", "PT"."YTD Pay Item Amount", "PT".PAY_ITEM_AMT, "PT".PAY_DT_WID, "PT".PAY_DT_WID, "Teammate Attributes"."Teammate Name", "Teammate Attributes"."Teammate Number", CAST("PT".PAY_DT_WID AS DATE) || '-' || CAST("PT".PAY_DT_WID AS DATE) || '-' || CAST("PT".PAY_DT_WID AS DATE), Time."Month", Time."Year" FROM
PAY_DT_WID column type is DOUBLE in rpd, which is the type we need to use with the CAST function, Please help me

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